Castro

[kas-troh, kahs-traw]

noun

1. Cipriano 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.

2. Fidel Fidel Castro Ruz, 1926–2016, Cuban revolutionary and political leader: prime minister 1959–76 and president 1976–2008.

3. Raúl Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz, born 1931, Cuban revolutionary and political leader: minister of defense 1959–2008 and president 2008–2018.

Castro

/ ˈkæstrəʊ, ˈkastro /

noun

1. Fidel (fɪˈdɛl; Spanish fiˈðɛl). full name Fidel Castro Ruz. born 1927, Cuban revolutionary and statesman: led the communist overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in 1959; prime minister (1959–76), president (1976–2008)

Example Sentences

“I want to have kids like yesterday,” said Castro, who isn’t married.

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In an intercepted call, Castro and Cano discussed “pinning” the drugs and guns on the suspected informant, but agreed it would only work if the alleged snitch was “already dead.”

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Among the dead are seven men and eight women, and foreigners, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon's Civil Protection Agency, said on Thursday.

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The chief executive of L.A. city’s housing authority, Lourdes Castro Ramirez, said the agency would need 25 referrals a week, three times what it has historically received, to use its vouchers effectively.

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Castro oversaw the nation’s largest four-year public university system from 2021 to 2022 after serving as president of Fresno State, where he won praise for increasing graduation rates and shrinking achievement gaps.

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