Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in the Dolomite Alps of northern Italy.
- noun Romansh as spoken in Engadine between Saint Moritz and the Austrian border.
- noun A person who is a native speaker of either of these languages.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A branch of the Rheto-Romanic language spoken in the Engadine in Switzerland and the upper Inn valley in Tyrol. See
Rheto-Romanic .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Romansch dialect spoken in some parts of Switzerland and the Tyrol.
- noun A person speaking Ladin as a mother tongue.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A sub-dialect of the
Indo-European Romance superfamily, spoken primarily in the southeastern region of Switzerland, the upper portion of Tyrol, and in the Dolomite Mountains in Northern Italy Italy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a Rhaeto-Romance dialect of Romansh spoken in southeastern Switzerland
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Having Cap go after Bin Ladin is a stupid as having Cap fighting a drug dealer or 'Dr. Carcinogen, The Living Source of All Cancer!!!!'
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Everyone knows Bin Ladin is hiding in Saudi Arabia with his family, not some cave.
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Osama bin Ladin is alive and well today because of Bill Clinton's indecisiveness.
Obama switches prediction: now says it'll be Celtics in six 2008
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Meanwhile Osama Bin Ladin is still alive and he should be the one who was hung he killed our American people on 911.
McCain says Obama's Iraq trip would convince him of success 2008
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Except bin Ladin is proably smarter, unfortunately. god help us.
Think Progress » Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’ 2006
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They would be cheering that Osama Bin Ladin is still at large, that American troops are bogged down in a country that was not a significant source of terrorism against our nation and that the real dangerous regimes, such as Iran and North Korea, are merrily building nukes, content in the knowledge that the U.S. doesn't have the military capacity to come after them.
Is That Legal?: The Special Danger of Blaming Minority "Subcultures" 2006
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Bin Ladin is said to have asked for space to establish training camps, as well as assistance in procuring weapons, but there is no evidence that Iraq responded to this request. 55 As described below, the ensuing years saw additional efforts to establish connections.
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#86, Not capturing bin Ladin is an impeachable offense?
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Yet, no one is talking about apprehending Osama Bin Ladin, which is the only reasonable justification we have to be in the middle east at all.
Campaign Surrogates Debate Iraq Strategy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Ok, then it’s safe to say that you think Osama bin Ladin is just as innocent, right?
Think Progress » Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ 2010
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