Mao Tsetung \Mao Tsetung\, Mao Zedong \Mao Zedong\prop. n. The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of teh People's Repbulic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply {Mao}. [Also spelled {Mao Tse-Tung}.] [WordNet 1.5]