Hussein

American  

[hoo-seyn] / hʊˈseɪn /

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.

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Hussein British  

/ 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

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Example Sentences

The ayatollahs’ rule was shaped by the bloody eight-year war that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq launched in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

From The Wall Street Journal

The U.S. helped topple Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi, but both dictators were ultimately killed by their own people.

From The Wall Street Journal

For eight days, Sudanese farmer Ibrahim Hussein led his family through treacherous terrain to flee the fighting in southern Kordofan -- the latest and most volatile front in the country's 31-month-old conflict.

From Barron's

Hussein told detectives he was not part of any plan and said the evidence of the undercover officer was "fantasy".

From BBC

He not only reported on the front-line fighting but also won exclusive, and controversial, interviews with then-President Saddam Hussein and future 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.

From Los Angeles Times