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LORCA

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Overview

LORCA (noun)
  The noun LORCA has 1 sense:

1. Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936)play

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


English dictionary: Word details


LORCA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Frederico Garcia Lorca; Garcia Lorca; Lorca

Instance hypernyms:

dramatist; playwright (someone who writes plays)

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))


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