Sandinista


San·di·ni·sta

S5068650 (săn′də-nē′stə, sän′-)n. A member or advocate of the leftist political party that governed Nicaragua from 1979 to 1990.
[Spanish sandinista, after César Augusto Sandino + Spanish -ista, -ist (from Latin -istēs, -ista; see -ist).]

Sandinista

(ˌsændɪˈniːstə) (in Nicaragua) n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a. one of a left-wing group of revolutionaries who overthrew President Somoza in 1979 and formed a socialist coalition government. The Sandinistas were opposed militarily by the US-backed Contras during the 1980s and were defeated in a general election in 1990b. (as modifier): the Sandinista revolution. [C20: from Spanish, named after Augusto César Sandino a Nicaraguan general and rebel leader, murdered in 1933]

San•di•nis•ta

(ˌsæn dəˈni stə)

n., pl. -tas. a member of the Nicaraguan revolutionary organization that controlled Nicaragua from 1979 to 1989. [1928, in sense “supporter of Sandino”; < American Spanish, after Augusto CésarSandino(1893–1934), Nicaraguan revolutionary]