metapolitefsi means A transitional period in modern Greek history after the fall of the military junta of 1967–74, leading to elections and democracy. It carries an Arena rating of 1017, earned across 40 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “metapolitefsi” is a great word
METAPOLITEFSI — [Noun] The specific, transformative process of democratic restoration in Greece following the collapse of the military junta in 1974. Borrowed from Greek μεταπολίτευση (metapolítefsi), from μετά (metá, "after, beyond") and πολίτευση (polítefsi, "system of government, polity"), thus meaning "regime change" or "change of polity." Unlike "junta," which names the preceding seven-year parenthesis of authoritarian rule, or the generic "transition," which could denote any systemic shift, metapolitefsi is the hard-won daylight after a long silence. It is the scent of newsprint from newly uncensored papers, the taste of political coffee-shop debate no longer whispered, and the palpable, bureaucratic weight of a constitution being drafted by debate, not fiat—a word that contains not just a historical interval, but the sober understanding that democracy is a verb perpetually conjugated.
Etymology
Borrowed from Greek μεταπολίτευση (metapolítefsi, “regime change”).
noun
- A transitional period in modern Greek history after the fall of the military junta of 1967–74, leading to elections and democracy.e.g.“In the event, metapolitefsi came to stand for far more wide-ranging transformations than those to the political system, drastic though these were.” — 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 345:
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