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zingano

zingano is the alternative form of zingaro.

Meaning of zingaro

Noun

zingaro (plural zingaros or zingari)

  1. (archaic) A Gypsy.
    • Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a...1969, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void

Forms of zingano

pluralzinganos
pluralzingani

Questions about zingano

What is zingano the alternative form of?
Zingano is the alternative form of zingaro.

Words near zingano in the dictionary

  1. Zingale
  2. Zingales
  3. zingana
  4. zinganas
  5. zingani
  6. zingano
  7. zinganos
  8. zingara
  9. zingaras
  10. zingare
  11. zingaresca

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Adapted from Wiktionary: zingano (page history and authors); zingaro (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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