Mandela

[ man-del-uh ]

noun

1. Nel·son (Ro·lih·lah·la) [nel, -s, uh, n raw-lee-, lah, -l, uh], Madiba, 1918–2013, South African Black antiapartheid activist: president of South Africa 1994–99.

Mandela

/ mænˈdɛlə /

noun

1. MandelaNelson (Rolihlahla)1918MSouth AfricanPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state Nelson ( Rolihlahla ). born 1918, Black South African statesman: president of South Africa (1994–99). Jailed in 1962 for 5 years and, in 1964, for life, he was released in 1990 after a long international campaign; deputy president of the African National Congress (1990–91) and president (1991–97); elected president of South Africa in 1994; Nobel peace prize jointly with F. W. de Klerk in 1993
2. Mandela(Numzano) Winnie1934FSouth AfricanPOLITICS: political activist ( Numzano ) Winnie . born 1934, Black South African political activist: campaigned for the release of her husband Nelson Mandela; they divorced in 1996

Example Sentences

Mandela may have been a prisoner, but he was by then the most famous political prisoner in the world.

From Time

It was the first time they had met, and prison officials had hurriedly ordered a three-piece suit and tie for Mandela.

From Time

Mandela recalled all of this to me in 1993 when I was working with him on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom.

From Time

“Mandela is hands-down the best candidate to defeat Senator Ron Johnson, expand our majority in the United States Senate, and deliver results for the people of Wisconsin,” Clyburn says in his prepared endorsement.

From The Daily Beast

He was imprisoned with Mandela on the notorious Robben Island for 10 years, so in many ways, I find it tragic that he is returning to a cell, not as the hero who was once on the right side of history, but as an old man in disgrace.

From Ozy

Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Oskar Schindler—these names come readily to mind when we think of heroes of conscience.

From The Daily Beast

At one point, Turness suggested that Gregory have a live band close out the show to commemorate the death of Nelson Mandela.

From The Daily Beast

I was quite specifically talking about the comparison between playing Heimdall on one day, and playing Mandela on the next.

From The Daily Beast

The song “You Give Me Love” came from both playing Mandela, and my positive feelings about the country.

From The Daily Beast

But the producer of the film took the clips to him since he was very close to Mandela.

From The Daily Beast

Horace mentions two places in its neighbourhood, Varia, and Mandela, the sites of which can be exactly determined.

From Project Gutenberg

A similar rock-cut tomb was found at Mandela, in the Anio valley.

From Project Gutenberg

This is Horace's Digentia, the stream he calls it whose icy waters freshen him, the stream of which Mandela drinks.

From Project Gutenberg