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Moro

1 American  
[mawr-oh, mohr-oh] / ˈmɔr oʊ, ˈmoʊr oʊ /

noun

  • Moros,
    plural
  • Moro
    plural
  1. a member of any of the various tribes of Muslim Malays in the southern Philippines.


Moro 2 American  
[mawr-oh, mor-oh, maw-raw] / ˈmɔr oʊ, ˈmɒr oʊ, ˈmɔ rɔ /

noun

  1. Aldo 1916–78, Italian lawyer, author, and statesman: prime minister 1963–68, 1974–76.


Moro 1 British  
/ ˈmɔːrəʊ /

noun

  1. a member of a group of predominantly Muslim peoples of the S Philippines: noted for their manufacture of weapons

  2. the language of these peoples, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Moro 2 British  
/ ˈmɔːro /

noun

  1. Aldo (ˈaldo). 1916–78, Italian Christian Democrat statesman; prime minister of Italy (1963–68; 1974–76) and minister of foreign affairs (1965–66; 1969–72; 1973–74). He negotiated the entry of the Italian Communist Party into coalition government before being kidnapped by the Red Brigades in 1978 and murdered

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of Moro

< Spanish < Latin Maurus Moor

Example Sentences

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She loved Caló des Moro, a beach nestled between steep cliffs.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Archie van der Flier and Joaquin Moro are two others nobody had heard of last year, but if Tigers make it to Twickenham, they will likely be part of the matchday 23.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

“Renewables require a completely different kind of grid,” says Luca Moro, chief investment officer at energy-focused fund SpesX, “a capillary system instead of one-way transmission from a power plant.”

From Barron's May 27, 2026

Upon entering the festival, attendees can fuel up at the Terrace with Irv’s Burgers, a seafood boil from the Boiling Crab or a warm churro from Churrería El Moro.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2026

He inspected my palate; he noted my Moro reflex without surprise.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

“I get people who see it as sounding crazy,” said Kostas Moros, a director at the Second Amendment Foundation.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 10, 2026

Then Becca Moros, Gotham’s top assistant, left for the University of Arizona and Tweed moved up a spot.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 20, 2023

"We remain in a state of emergency on the instructions of our commander-in-chief Nicolas Maduro Moros," Remigio Ceballos, minister of the interior, said on state television on Wednesday.

From Reuters Aug. 25, 2021

As Pershing lamented in 1913, the 14th year of the war, “The Moros never seemed to learn from experience.”

From Salon Dec. 24, 2019

It was exceedingly well fortified with a new ditch, with eight pieces of artillery, twenty-seven versos, many muskets with rests, and other lighter arms, and with more than two thousand warrior Moros.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various

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