Lorca

[lawr-kuh, lawr-kah]

noun

1. García Lorca.

2. a city in SE Spain.

Lorca

¹

/ ˈlɔrka /

noun

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

Lorca

²

/ 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)

Example Sentences

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

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

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She dies as she is about to go onstage in the Lorca play “Mariana Pineda,” about the heroine of an earlier Spanish revolution.

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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.”

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“In Spain,” García Lorca once wrote, “the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”

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