Hussein

[hoo-seyn]

noun

1. Also Hosein; Husain al-Husayn, a.d. 629?–680, Arabian caliph, the son of Ali and Fatima and the brother of Hasan.

2. Saddam at-Takriti, 1937–2006, Iraqi political leader: president 1979–2003.

Hussein

/ hʊˈseɪn /

noun

1. Also: Husain. 1935–99, king of Jordan (1952–99)

2. Saddam (sæˈdæm). 1937–2006, Iraqi politician: president (1979–2003) and prime minister (1994–2003) of Iraq. He led Iraq into the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88) and the Gulf War (1991) but was deposed and captured in the US-led invasion of 2003; executed 2006

Example Sentences

For almost 20 years, Iraqi schoolchildren lived in fear over the birthday of Saddam Hussein.

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The district’s new police chief, who goes by the name Abu Hussein, said his men had found bodies throughout the district, including three similar cases of bodies stuffed down wells.

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The election this week was the sixth in two decades, after the U.S. invasion toppled the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and sent Iraq spiraling into civil war.

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When Hussein was deposed in Iraq, the military officers, Ba’ath Party loyalists and regime-tied sycophants who ruled the roost for nearly a quarter-century were forced to make do with an entirely new situation.

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That, and the giant photograph of Saddam Hussein he selected from the wall of targets.

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