Baath

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɑːθ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːθ
• Homophone: bath (Received Pronunciation)

Proper noun

1. The Arab Socialist Baath Party, a secular Arab socialist political party present in several countries in the Middle East, most prominently Iraq and Syria.
   • Today it is they that proclaim the slogan of "federation"—which is opposed to the Baath's postulates. - 1959, Swiss Review of World Affairs, page 23
   • Nasser had a country without a party, but the Baath was still a party without a country. - 1978, Lewis B. Ware, A Handbook of the Arab-Israeli Crisis, page 96
   • For the Party to succeed in achieving these aims, Aflaq insisted that the Baath had to be nationalist, populist, socialist and revolutionary. - 1980, Adeed I. Dawisha, Syria and the Lebanese crisis, page 46
   • The Baath was small but well organized and bold, and could not be intimidated. - 1995, Milton Viorst, Sandcastles, page 23
   • The Baath is an avowedly secular party that has pursued socialist economic policies and at one time was aligned with the "godless" Soviet Union. - 2012, William Mark Habeeb, The Middle East in Turmoil, page 185
   • The 1973 War was an opportunity for decision makers to demonstrate that their work under the Baath was substantively different than their predecessors, [...] - 2016, Imad Mansour, Statecraft in the Middle East, page 125
   • The Baath was the party of the downtrodden, stacked with minorities and the rural poor of all sects, including Sunni. - 2018, Rania Abouzeid, No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
   • It was on this platform that the Baath would bring glory, honor, and enlightenment back to the Arab World in the wake of European colonialism. - 2021, Christopher Solomon, In Search of Greater Syria, page 5