Mussolini

[moos-uh-lee-nee, moo-suh-, moos-saw-lee-nee]

noun

1. Benito Il Duce, 1883–1945, Italian Fascist leader: premier of Italy 1922–43.

Mussolini

/ ˌmʊsəˈliːnɪ, mussoˈliːni /

noun

1. Benito (beˈniːto) known as il Duce. 1883–1945, Italian Fascist dictator. After the Fascist march on Rome, he was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III (1922) and assumed dictatorial powers. He annexed Abyssinia and allied Italy with Germany (1936), entering World War II in 1940. He was forced to resign following the Allied invasion of Sicily (1943) and was eventually shot by Italian partisans

Example Sentences

When joining Cremonese in the summer, Floriani Mussolini said he was "here to play football", adding: "My surname bothers other people more than me."

From BBC

The extravagant kitsch monument in Rome, finished under Mussolini’s rule?

From Salon

In Mussolini’s Italy, intellectuals were coerced into swearing loyalty to the fascist state, and scholarship became a tool of nationalist propaganda, intertwining classical myths with imperial ambition.

From Salon

You think of Mussolini; you think of Franco; and you think of Hitler — that very particular moment in European history.

From Salon

He cannot be compared with people like Hitler and Mussolini.

From Salon