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.

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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.

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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

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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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Moro
  plural
• Moros
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of Moro

< Spanish < Latin Maurus Moor

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Moro Moros

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

The biggest names in the grid space are the U.K.’s National Grid and Germany’s E.ON, says Moro.

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

But Moro was a politician in a turbulent time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026

Everyone still knows him as El Moro, and now he and his wife and their seven children run the inn.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

“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

Spanish rule had always been tenuous in their territories and few Moros had even heard of Paris.

From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2019

The question of permanent occupation of this important site was debated by a council of war, but their forces appearing unequal to the task, the forts of the Moros were destroyed, and the expedition returned.

From A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

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