Lorca

American  

[lawr-kuh, lawr-kah] / ˈlɔr kə, ˈlɔr kɑ /

noun

1. García Lorca.

2. a city in SE Spain.

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Lorca ¹ British  

/ ˈlɔrka /

noun

1. a town in SE Spain, on the Guadalentín River. Pop: 82 511 (2003 est)

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Lorca ² British  

/ ˈlɔrka /

noun

1. Federico García (feðeˈriko ɡarˈθia). 1898–1936, Spanish poet and dramatist. His poetry, such as Romancero gitano (1928), shows his debt to Andalusian folk poetry. His plays include the trilogy Bodas de sangre (1933), Yerma (1934), and La Casa de Bernarda Alba (1936)

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Example Sentences

“One thing that I’ll always be eternally grateful to him for . . . is he introduced me to García Lorca when I was a kid,” his son later said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lorca immediately kick-started his managerial career and he repaid them by winning promotion at the first time of asking.

From BBC

He had condensed his life to three full suitcases and his dachshund mix, Lorca.

From Los Angeles Times

Just as Lorca embodies Lorca, Wainwright threads recitations of Lord Byron’s 1816 “Darkness,” throughout a score otherwise based on the traditional Latin requiem text.

From Los Angeles Times

A top government minister, Josué Alejandro Lorca, said in 2021 that oil spills were “not a big deal because, historically, all oil companies have had them.”

From New York Times