Synonyms for swastika
ˈswɒs tɪ kəswasti·ka

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1. swastikanoun

   Synonyms:
   gammadion, cross cramponnée, hooked cross, gammation, Thors hammer, fylfot, cross gammadion, cross cramponned, tetraskelion, twisted cross, sun wheel, Black Spider, sauvastika, sauwastika, cross cramponny, crooked cross

2. swastikanoun

   A cross with arms of equal length all bent halfway along at a 90° angle to the right or to the left, used as a religious symbol by various ancient and modern civilizations, and adopted more recently (with arms angled to the right) as a symbol of Nazism and fascism.

   Synonyms:
   gammation, crooked cross, cross gammadion, sauvastika, sun wheel, Black Spider, sauwastika, Thors hammer, fylfot, cross cramponny, tetraskelion, twisted cross, cross cramponned, gammadion, hooked cross, cross cramponnée

Princeton's WordNet

1. swastika, Hakenkreuznoun

   the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction

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1. • Emblem
   • Tetraskelion

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1. Blake Flayton:

   An American Jew is only used to perceiving anti-Semitism as Nazis in Charlottesville carrying tiki torches, or a swastika being spray-painted onto a synagogue wall, or the Christian right saying that Jews killed Jesus Christ. We're not very attuned to and good at recognizing anti-Semitism when it doesn't come from that extreme side of the political spectrum, but we are going to have to get used to it, because that's what's coming here. It's already here.

2. Rabbi Reuven Mintz:

   Our hope is that meeting someone who witnessed, firsthand, the atrocities committed under the same swastika and salute will help guide these students towards a life of tolerance and acceptance.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   He was behind me. And I was speaking to the crowd and I saw crowds booing and I turned around, I didn't quite see what it was. I learned about it right after I left the stage, the idea that there was a swastika, a symbol of everything that this country stands against -- we lost 400,000 people fighting that symbol, fighting Nazism. Six million Jews were killed, other people were killed. The most devastating war in the history of humanity.

4. Stephen Piggott:

   We’re seeing a lot of young people wearing patches like that in the white nationalist world, if you were walking down the street, the average person wouldn’t have a clue what that patch is. But if he was walking down the street wearing a Nazi swastika, it would be completely different.

5. Ryun King:

   The swastika and the SS bolts and the Confederate flag tend to be the predominant images that I see that I have to cover up.