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Fray Bentos

Fray Bentos proper noun: a city, the capital of Río Negro department, Uruguay.

Proper noun

Fray Bentos

  1. A city, the capital of Río Negro department, Uruguay.
    • The big draw of the town was the disused meat factory on the shore of the broad Rio Uruguay. Fray Bentos (named after a Jesuit priest) rose and fell with the fortunes of the meat company, Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay.2003 September 21, Tom Hall, “Sunset in a one-pie town”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Origin of Fray Bentos

Borrowed from Spanish Fray Bentos.

Questions about Fray Bentos

What does Fray Bentos mean?
Fray Bentos means a city, the capital of Río Negro department, Uruguay.
What part of speech is Fray Bentos?
Fray Bentos is a proper noun.

Words near Fray Bentos in the dictionary

  1. fraxinellone
  2. fraxinin
  3. fraxinins
  4. fraxiparine
  5. fray
  6. Fray Bentos
  7. fray-boggard
  8. fray-boggards
  9. frayable
  10. frayboggard
  11. frayboggards

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