Dolores

American  

[duh-lawr-is, -lohr-] / dəˈlɔr ɪs, -ˈloʊr- /

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”

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Example Sentences

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized farmworkers in 1962.

From The Wall Street Journal

The remains of these invisible dead end up in Dolores Cemetery, Mexico's largest, situated in Chapultepec Forest.

From Barron's

Each year around 500 people are buried in unmarked graves in Dolores Cemetery.

From Barron's

Her conviction was eventually overturned thanks to the crusading efforts of lawyer Soledad Deza, a tale chronicled in Dolores Fonzi’s appropriately titled “Belén.”

From Los Angeles Times

The Mexican actress Dolores Del Rio stars, opposite a noble but naïve Ralph Forbes, as a chaste maiden propelled by circumstance into a world she’d have been better off not knowing—with Mr. Horne once more adding to the film’s emotional impact.

From The Wall Street Journal