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adelitas

adelitas is the plural of adelita.

Meaning of adelita

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

Questions about adelitas

What is adelitas the plural of?
Adelitas is the plural of adelita.

Words near adelitas in the dictionary

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

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