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Definition of Contra
1. Noun. A member of the guerrilla force that opposed a left-wing government in Nicaragua.
Definition of Contra
1. Proper noun. a range of right-wing guerilla groups violently opposing the socialist Sandinista government of Nicaragua and secretly funded by the United States government in the 1980s. ¹
2. Preposition. against; contrary or opposed to ¹
3. Adverb. to the contrary to something ¹
4. Noun. (business) a deal to swap goods or services ¹
5. Noun. (accounting) an entry that cancels another entry ¹
6. Noun. (informal) any of the musical instruments in the contrabass range, e.g. contrabassoon, contrabass clarinet or, especially, double bass ¹
7. Noun. contra dance ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contra
1. a Nicaraguan revolutionary [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contra
Literary usage of Contra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"These accusations, and especially the last, drew to the side of the contra-Remonstrants
a large majority of the Protestant portion of the population ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Accordingly, in 1613, the proposals of the contra-Remonstrants for the summoning
... The contra-Remonstrant Ministers were driven from Rotterdam and other ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"The Confederation of Radom, and its victorious Diet, had hardly begun their Song
of Triumph, when there ensued on the per-contra side a naming Confederation ..."
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