controdimostrazione

Italian

Etymology

From contro- +‎ dimostrazione.

Noun

controdimostrazione f (plural controdimostrazioni)

1. counterdemonstration
   • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:

     Le violenze continuarono anche il giorno dopo, insieme a vaste controdimostrazioni organizzate dal governo.

     The violence continued into the next day, along with large-scale counterdemonstrations organized by the government.

     (literally, “The violence continued even the next day, together with vast counterdemonstrations organized by the government.”)