Hussein
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5.6
- proper noun
- /huːˈseɪn/
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Hussein
- Uh... the Iraqi people deserve better than Saddam Hussein.
- Saddam Hussein
- Hussein in Iraq
- Hussein invaded Kuwait
They know that Saddam Hussein was was captured.
- They know that Saddam Hussein was was captured.
- So what was So back in Iraq, you got Saddam Hussein fighting against Iran.
- And he said, look, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
- When was Saddam Hussein taken down?
- Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive.
- Speaking of bad ideas, I mean, you grew up under Saddam Hussein in in Iraq.
- You know, we weren't allowed to say, wait a minute, Saddam Hussein didn't really bomb the World Trade Center.
- We're not here to help you overthrow Saddam Hussein.
- And they took it to Stansted in London to escape Saddam Hussein.
- Now, I don't know if you know this, but Saddam Hussein and his sons were very fond of swimming.
- And then he got, you know, Americans came, saved Kuwait and drove out Saddam Hussein and his forces.
- It's Gaddafi had it, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler had it.
- It was a secular Baathist regime run by Saddam Hussein.
- And what I do here instead as well, we, we got rid of a tyrant, Saddam Hussein.
- Saddam Hussein was defined as Hitler.
Examples
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I remember the day Saddam Hussein became president of this country.
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Arab leaders sought what became known as an Arab solution, only to conclude that Saddam Hussein was unwilling to leave Kuwait.
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Why would they want to keep Saddam Hussein in power?
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And you get to the people at the top who know where Saddam Hussein is.
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"How sure are you," asked Sir Paul, "that Saddam Hussein cannot have his bomb yet?"
Fiction book (1994) -
Saddam Hussein is bombing us!
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Being put in the same category as their old enemy Saddam Hussein only made the shock worse.
Academic text (2013) -
Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive.
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That's Saddam Hussein, the dictator!
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I remember the day Saddam Hussein became president of this country.
Synonyms
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6.1
An Iraqi leader who was president from 1979 to 2003
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6.0
An Iraqi political leader, President from 1979 to 2003, who ruled strictly and led wars with Iran and Kuwait
Surface Forms
Etymology
Hussein comes from the Arabic name Husayn, which is a smaller form of Hasan, meaning 'good' or 'handsome'. So Hussein originally meant 'little good one' and is a common Arabic given name and family name, here used as the surname of the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.