Castro

[kas-troh, kahs-traw]

noun

1. Cipriano 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.

2. Fidel Fidel Castro Ruz, 1926–2016, Cuban revolutionary and political leader: prime minister 1959–76 and president 1976–2008.

3. Raúl Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz, born 1931, Cuban revolutionary and political leader: minister of defense 1959–2008 and president 2008–2018.

Castro

/ ˈkæstrəʊ, ˈkastro /

noun

1. Fidel (fɪˈdɛl; Spanish fiˈðɛl). full name Fidel Castro Ruz. born 1927, Cuban revolutionary and statesman: led the communist overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in 1959; prime minister (1959–76), president (1976–2008)

Example Sentences

Among the dead are seven men and eight women, and foreigners, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon's Civil Protection Agency, said on Thursday.

From BBC

The chief executive of L.A. city’s housing authority, Lourdes Castro Ramirez, said the agency would need 25 referrals a week, three times what it has historically received, to use its vouchers effectively.

From Los Angeles Times

Castro oversaw the nation’s largest four-year public university system from 2021 to 2022 after serving as president of Fresno State, where he won praise for increasing graduation rates and shrinking achievement gaps.

From Los Angeles Times

Under the new maps, only Castro is truly safe, while Casar is now in a district represented by Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett, who has announced he will retire.

From Los Angeles Times

From its first track, also titled “Sendé,” Castro sets the mood with a sticky intro by Jamaican toaster U-Roy from Dawn Penn’s “No, No, No.”

From Los Angeles Times