Usually means: Islamic fundamentalist political and military group.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word taliban:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. taliban: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Taliban, Taliban: Merriam-Webster
  3. Taliban: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Taliban: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Taliban: Vocabulary.com
  6. Taliban, Taliban, taliban: Wordnik
  7. the Taliban, the taliban: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Taliban: Wiktionary
  9. Taliban: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. taliban: Dictionary.com
  11. Taliban: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Taliban, The Taliban: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Taliban: Rhymezone
  14. taliban: FreeDictionary.org
  15. taliban: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Taliban: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Taliban: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Terrorism Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Taliban, taliban: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Taliban)

▸ noun:  A Deobandi Islamist and largely Pashtun religious political movement founded in Afghanistan in 1994 by mullah Mohammad Omar, which has governed the country from 1996 to 2001 and since 2021.
▸ noun:  A Taliban militia.
▸ noun:  A member of the Taliban movement or its militia; a Talib.

Similar:
Taleban, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Talibanistan, Talibanization, Durrani, Talib, Kabulistan, Mohmand, Sarbani, Malik, more...

Opposite:
anti-Taliban, pro-government, democratic

Types:
Mujahideen, Jihadist, Islamist, Wahhabi, Salafist, more...

Phrases:
taliban government, taliban movement, afghan taliban, Pakistani Taliban, Taliban insurgency, more...

Adjectives:
post, anti, fundamentalist, resurgent, moderate, many, pro, former, called, neo, local

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Similar:
Taleban, Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, Talibanistan, Talibanization, Durrani, Talib, Kabulistan, Mohmand, Sarbani, Malik, more...

Opposite:
anti-Taliban, pro-government, democratic

Types:
Mujahideen, Jihadist, Islamist, Wahhabi, Salafist, more...

Phrases:
taliban government, taliban movement, afghan taliban, Pakistani Taliban, Taliban insurgency, Treatment of women by the Taliban, History of the Taliban, Taliban Five, Taliban propaganda, Taliban in Qatar, more...

Adjectives:
post, anti, fundamentalist, resurgent, moderate, many, pro, former, called, neo, local

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    black,     white,     green,     red,     brown, more...



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