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Castro

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˈkæstɹoʊ//

A surname from Spanish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Spanish.

  2. 2

    A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, known for its LGBT community.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Castro. The neighborhood is named after Californio politician José Castro (1808–1860).

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).