Amin

¹

[ah-meen]

noun

1. Idi Idi Amin Dada, 1925?–2003, Ugandan dictator: president 1971–79; in exile from 1979.

amin-

²

1. variant of amino- before a vowel.

Amin

¹

/ ɑː-, æˈmiːn /

noun

1. a former official name for (Lake) Edward

Amin

²

/ æˈmiːn, ɑː- /

noun

1. Idi (ˈiːdiː). 1925–2003, Ugandan soldier; dictator and head of state (1971–79). Notorious for his brutality, he was overthrown and exiled

Example Sentences

Amin Abu Alia, the mayor of the adjacent village al-Mughayyir, confirmed details of the attack to the BBC.

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Mr. Mamdani, who prefers to cast Amin as an anticolonialist hero, is the father of Zohran Mamdani, and after reading the book, Mr. Varadarajan feels he understands the young New York socialist a bit better.

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Mahmoud Amin Ya'qub al-Muhtadi, 33, allegedly armed himself and joined a paramilitary group that fought alongside Hamas in the 2023 attack that saw about 2,000 people killed and 251 taken as hostages.

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With cinematography by Amin Jafari, featuring more handsomely composed wide shots and gliding camera movements than we’ve come to expect from Mr. Panahi’s scrappier recent films, “It Was Just an Accident” strikes notes of both redemption and, by the end, a deep, howling despair.

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Startling, not because of the writing—which is often repetitive, tediously autobiographical and awash with anticolonial pieties—but because “Slow Poison” is an apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history.

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