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Definition of Pancho Villa
1. Noun. Mexican revolutionary leader (1877-1923).
Generic synonyms: Revolutionary, Revolutionist, Subversive, Subverter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pancho Villa
Literary usage of Pancho Villa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Insurgent Mexico by John Reed (1914)
"protests of its owner; and then tell him to go over to the river and say that
Pancho Villa said that he should fill it there. CHAPTER VIII THE DREAM OF ..."
2. Mexico's Pacific Coast by Vivien Lougheed (2004)
"THE LIFE & TIMES OF Pancho Villa Francisco Villa was born on June 6. ...
Pancho Villa was assassinated by some of his old gang on July 20. ..."
3. History of Mexico: Being a Popular History of the Mexican People from the by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1914)
"Theirs was a quality of patriotism Pancho Villa differing from that of the Huerta
school, in that they robbed and murdered by the book, though it is said ..."
4. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"The cry went up immediately, "On to Mexico, catch Pancho Villa, dead or alive.
... People who were acquainted with the situation knew that Pancho Villa was ..."
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