human chain

English

Noun

human chain (plural human chains)

1. (politics) A form of demonstration in which people link their arms as a show of political solidarity.
2. Synonym of bucket brigade (“the long line of people, in a primitive firefighting technique”)

Translations

form of demonstration in which people link their arms as a show of political solidarity

Armenian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 人鏈 / 人链 (rénliàn) Esperanto: homa ĉeno Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ihmisketju French: chaîne humaine (fr) f Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: Menschenkette (de) f Hungarian: élőlánc (hu) Italian: catena umana f Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Polish: ludzki łańcuch m Portuguese: cadeia humana f, corrente humana f Romanian: lanț uman n Russian: живая цепь (živaja cepʹ) Spanish: cadena humana f

Further reading

• human chain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia