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CASTRO

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Overview

CASTRO (noun)
  The noun CASTRO has 1 sense:

1. Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)play

  Familiarity information: CASTRO used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


CASTRO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Castro; Fidel Castro; Fidel Castro Ruz

Instance hypernyms:

socialist (a political advocate of socialism)


 Context examples 


The one at his elbow is Fernando de Castro, who is as brave and true a man as heart could wish.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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