Moro
1 Americannoun
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Moros,
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Moro
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a member of a group of predominantly Muslim peoples of the S Philippines: noted for their manufacture of weapons
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the language of these peoples, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family
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Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
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“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.
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