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adelita

adelita noun: a female soldier during the Mexican revolution.

Noun

adelita (plural adelitas)

  1. A female soldier during the Mexican revolution
    • An employee of the city's Latino Affairs Commission, she looks like an adelita (a woman soldier and camp follower) in her blouse, long skirt, and sash crisscrossing her chest.1988 July 15, David Fremon, “Look-Alike Contest”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of adelita

pluraladelitas

Origin of adelita

From Spanish adelita.

Questions about adelita

What does adelita mean?
Adelita means a female soldier during the Mexican revolution.
What part of speech is adelita?
Adelita is a noun.
What is the plural of adelita?
The plural of adelita is adelitas.

Words near adelita in the dictionary

  1. Adelies
  2. Adelina
  3. Adeline
  4. adeling
  5. adelings
  6. adelita
  7. adelitas
  8. adelite
  9. adelites
  10. Adeliza
  11. adelize

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