fifth columnn.

Brit.

/ˌfɪfθ ˈkɒləm/, U.S.

/ˌfɪ(f)θ ˈkɑləm/

Etymology: translating Spanish quinta columna ; compare column n. 10.

Originally the column of supporters which General Mola declared himself to have in Madrid, when he was besieging it in the Spanish Civil War, in addition to the four columns of his army outside the city (see 1936¹); hence, allusively, a body of one's supporters in an attacked or occupied foreign country, or the enemy's supporters in one's own country. Also attributive and transferred.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > [noun] > supporters in a foreign country

fifth column1936

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > traitor to country or government > body of

fifth column1936

1936 N.Y. Times 16 Oct. 2/2 Police last night began a house-to-house search for Rebels in Madrid... Orders for these raids..apparently were instigated by a recent broadcast over the Rebel radio station by General Emilio Mola. He stated he was counting on four columns of troops outside Madrid and another column of persons hiding within the city who would join the invaders as soon as they entered the capital.]

1936 N.Y. Times 17 Oct. 9/4 Prudence counsels the government to forestall as far as possible the activities of this ‘fifth column’.

1938 E. Hemingway (title) The Fifth Column.

1939 War Illustr. 21 Oct. p. ii/3 This looks to me like the Nazis' ‘fifth column’ in Belgium ready for the invasion.

1940 W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 222 Parliament has given us the powers to put down Fifth Column activities with a strong hand.

1940 Economist 20 Apr. 723/1 Now that the news is beginning to reach the outside world of the..extent and..efficiency of the Nazi plot by which the key positions in Norway's cities and harbours were sacrificed to the invader..the other neutrals are attempting..to cope with the problem of their own ‘Fifth Columns’.

1942 Mind 51 166 Hence Prof. Collingwood arrives at the startling conclusion that psychologists are a group of fifth column conspirators, whose real aim is to destroy western civilisation from within.

1958 New Statesman 26 Apr. 538/3 After denouncing the Free World's readiness to let Communist fifth columns flourish undisturbed in its midst, he rails [etc.].

Derivatives

fifth columnism n.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason

treason?c1225

treacherya1400

hurt majestyc1480

lèse-majestéc1485

perduellion1533

patricide1576

treasonrya1600

perduellism1656

treasonableness1679

lèse-nation1789

treasony1828

trahison1858

parricide1867

fifth columnism1941

1941 E. Snow Battle for Asia 354 Factions..sabotaged the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies in ways which elsewhere would be called Fifth Columnism.

fifth-columnist n. frequently loosely, a traitor, a spy.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > traitor to country or government

traitorc1290

treason-worker1553

treacherer1571

treacher1591

Catiline1592

patricide1593

treason-monger1746

treasonist1796

parricide1853

fifth-columnist1940

1940 G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 291 If you call Stalin a bloodstained monster you must be shot as the most dangerous of Fifth Columnists.

1941 A. Huxley Grey Eminence vii. 146 His enemies..accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Hapsburg fifth-columnists.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. xxviii/4 Sensational elements began to infiltrate like fifth-columnists into the work of serious novelists.

1967 W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 66 I've put him through the standard tests. He's no fifth columnist.

1971 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. 1 Most of them had confessed to entering East Pakistan as fifth columnists.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fifth column
释义	fifth columnn. Brit. /ˌfɪfθ ˈkɒləm/, U.S. /ˌfɪ(f)θ ˈkɑləm/ Etymology: translating Spanish quinta columna ; compare column n. 10. Originally the column of supporters which General Mola declared himself to have in Madrid, when he was besieging it in the Spanish Civil War, in addition to the four columns of his army outside the city (see 1936¹); hence, allusively, a body of one's supporters in an attacked or occupied foreign country, or the enemy's supporters in one's own country. Also attributive and transferred. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > [noun] > supporters in a foreign country fifth column1936 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > traitor to country or government > body of fifth column1936 1936 N.Y. Times 16 Oct. 2/2 Police last night began a house-to-house search for Rebels in Madrid... Orders for these raids..apparently were instigated by a recent broadcast over the Rebel radio station by General Emilio Mola. He stated he was counting on four columns of troops outside Madrid and another column of persons hiding within the city who would join the invaders as soon as they entered the capital.] 1936 N.Y. Times 17 Oct. 9/4 Prudence counsels the government to forestall as far as possible the activities of this ‘fifth column’. 1938 E. Hemingway (title) The Fifth Column. 1939 War Illustr. 21 Oct. p. ii/3 This looks to me like the Nazis' ‘fifth column’ in Belgium ready for the invasion. 1940 W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 222 Parliament has given us the powers to put down Fifth Column activities with a strong hand. 1940 Economist 20 Apr. 723/1 Now that the news is beginning to reach the outside world of the..extent and..efficiency of the Nazi plot by which the key positions in Norway's cities and harbours were sacrificed to the invader..the other neutrals are attempting..to cope with the problem of their own ‘Fifth Columns’. 1942 Mind 51 166 Hence Prof. Collingwood arrives at the startling conclusion that psychologists are a group of fifth column conspirators, whose real aim is to destroy western civilisation from within. 1958 New Statesman 26 Apr. 538/3 After denouncing the Free World's readiness to let Communist fifth columns flourish undisturbed in its midst, he rails [etc.]. Derivatives fifth columnism n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason treason?c1225 treacherya1400 hurt majestyc1480 lèse-majestéc1485 perduellion1533 patricide1576 treasonrya1600 perduellism1656 treasonableness1679 lèse-nation1789 treasony1828 trahison1858 parricide1867 fifth columnism1941 1941 E. Snow Battle for Asia 354 Factions..sabotaged the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies in ways which elsewhere would be called Fifth Columnism. fifth-columnist n. frequently loosely, a traitor, a spy. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treason > traitor to country or government traitorc1290 treason-worker1553 treacherer1571 treacher1591 Catiline1592 patricide1593 treason-monger1746 treasonist1796 parricide1853 fifth-columnist1940 1940 G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 291 If you call Stalin a bloodstained monster you must be shot as the most dangerous of Fifth Columnists. 1941 A. Huxley Grey Eminence vii. 146 His enemies..accused him of using his missionaries as French agents and anti-Hapsburg fifth-columnists. 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. xxviii/4 Sensational elements began to infiltrate like fifth-columnists into the work of serious novelists. 1967 W. Soyinka Kongi's Harvest 66 I've put him through the standard tests. He's no fifth columnist. 1971 Daily Tel. 6 Apr. 1 Most of them had confessed to entering East Pakistan as fifth columnists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1936
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