Fray Bentos

proper noun

A city, the capital of Río Negro department, Uruguay.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A city, the capital of Río Negro department, Uruguay.

    The big draw of the town was the disused meat factory on the shore of the broad Rio Uruguay. Fray Bentos (named after a Jesuit priest) rose and fell with the fortunes of the meat company, Frigorífico Anglo del Uruguay.

    2003 September 21, Tom Hall, “Sunset in a one-pie town”, in The Observer, →ISSN

Origin

  1. SpanishFray Bentos
  2. EnglishFray Bentos

Borrowed from Spanish Fray Bentos.

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APA

Fray Bentos. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fray%20Bentos

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