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contadino

contadino noun: an Italian peasant.

Noun

contadino (plural contadinos or contadini)

  1. An Italian peasant.
    • Afar the Contadino’s song is heard, / Rude, but made sweet by distance;— […]a. 1823 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to —⁠—”, in Mary W[ollstonecraft] Shelley, editor, Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John and Henry...
    • By 1910, about 31 Italian families were living in or near Nichols and working at the General Chemical Company. Many of them were contadinos sponsored by family.2007, Dean L. McLeod, Port Chicago, page 51

Forms of contadino

pluralcontadinos
pluralcontadini

Origin of contadino

Borrowed from Italian contadino.

Questions about contadino

What does contadino mean?
Contadino means an Italian peasant.
What part of speech is contadino?
Contadino is a noun.
What is the plural of contadino?
The plural of contadino is contadinos.

Words near contadino in the dictionary

  1. contactually
  2. contadina
  3. contadinas
  4. contadine
  5. contadini
  6. contadino
  7. contadinos
  8. contado
  9. contagia
  10. contagiogram
  11. contagiograms

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