Definitions for fifth-column
fifth-column
fifth column
Fifth-Column is a 12 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 507 anagrams from letters in fifth-column (-cffhilmnotu).
Definitions for fifth-column
noun
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a group of people who act traitorously and subversively out of a secret sympathy with an enemy of their country.
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(originally) Franco sympathizers in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War: so called in allusion to a statement in 1936 that the insurgents had four columns marching on Madrid and a fifth column of sympathizers in the city ready to rise and betray it.