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Chamorro

[ chuh-mawr-oh; Spanish chah-mawr-raw ]

noun

plural Chamorros (especially collectively) Chamorro.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Chamorro1

First recorded in 1945–50; from Spanish, from CHamoru Chamorri, the name of the highest, ruling caste of that people
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Example Sentences

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Sandinista President Daniel Ortega had agreed to allow the election — but was refusing to accept the results when it appeared he was losing to his matronly opponent, Violeta Chamorro, owner of the country’s leading opposition newspaper.

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This growing list includes past leaders of two of Latin America’s largest countries, Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina, and those in smaller nations like Violeta Chamorro of Nicaragua and Xiomara Castro, the current president of Honduras.

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Melanesia, which includes Chamorro people, Indigenous inhabitants of Guam, is one of the recently disaggregated categories in the census.

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Long Beach is home to a small population reporting Chamarro ancestry, while the biggest Chamorro community in the U.S. lives in San Diego County, where over 9,000 people reported Chamorro ancestry.

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The E.L.N.’s top commander, Eliécer Herlinto Chamorro, known by his nom de guerre Antonio García, called on combatants to comply with the cease-fire in a video on Monday and said that further discussions with the “participation of society” would move forward “to make Colombia a fairer, more democratic and inclusive country.”

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