Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of any of the predominantly Muslim Malay peoples of the southern Philippines.
- noun Any of the Austronesian languages of the Moro.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The vinous grosbeak, stone-bird, or desert-trumpeter, Carpodacus (Bacanetes) githagineus, a small fringilline bird.
- noun A small abscess or tumor of mulberry shape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry.
- proper noun (Ethnol.) A member of any of the
moros , a group one of various tribes of the southern Phillippine Islands, mostly Malays adhering to Mohammedanism. - proper noun (Linguistics) Any of the languages of the Moro people, of the Austronesian language family.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
Kordofanian language spoken inSudan .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the predominantly Muslim people in the southern Philippines
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He distinguished the cry from the Genoese sailors, '_Ii Moro -- Il Moro_,' in tones of horror and consternation, and almost at the same moment received a shock from Maitre Hebert, who came stumbling against him.
A Modern Telemachus Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"The Moro has returned," wrote Jean d'Auton, "and has entered Milan, where he has been received as if he were a God from heaven, great and small shouting _Moro!
Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 Julia Mary Cartwright Ady 1887
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The Philippines was under Spanish rule for more than 300 years and the Spanish name Moro for Moors referred to Muslims.
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The Philippines was under Spanish rule for more than 300 years and the Spanish name Moro for Moors referred to Muslims.
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Akhtar Soomro/Reuters MEDICAL CHECK: Sadaf, 3, who was displaced by floods, had a checkup at a free medical clinic for flood victims in Moro, Pakistan, Monday.
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Moro is the restaurant I'd most like to visit in London.
Moro. I love it. And that's that. Michele 2007
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Mr. Bird says, in the letter just mentioned, "The name Moro is doubtless the same as Amrou or Omar, the final o or u being only a vowel point".
Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831. Ed. John Franklin Jameson. From The American Historical Review, 30, No. 4. (July 1925), 787-795 John Franklin 1925
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He comes from a long line of successful bowlers, his grandfather is a Syracuse Bowling Hall of Famer, and the name Moro has been associated with Bowling in our area for years.
NBC3 - Local News 2009
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He comes from a long line of successful bowlers, his grandfather is a Syracuse Bowling Hall of Famer, and the name Moro has been associated with Bowling in our area for years.
NBC3 - Local News 2009
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The group crossed from Sudan in South Sudan's Upper Nile state on August 19, attacking a platoon of SPLA troops at Alan and later Kaka Moro.
South Sudan says Khartoum-backed raiders kill 15 Reuters 2011
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