"bullfighting" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bullfighting.wav [Southern-England] Forms: bullfightings [plural]
Etymology: bull + fighting Etymology templates: {{compound|en|bull|fighting}} bull + fighting Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} bullfighting (usually uncountable, plural bullfightings)
  1. A traditional spectacle, popular in Spain and many former Spanish colonies, in which a matador manipulates and ultimately kills a bull at close range. Wikipedia link: bullfighting Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Bullfighting, Sports Synonyms: tauromachy [formal], bullfight, bull-fighting Translations: stiergeveg (Afrikaans), مُصَارَعَة ثِيرَانٍ (muṣāraʕat ṯīrānin) [feminine] (Arabic), ցլամարտ (cʿlamart) (Armenian), öküz döyüşü (Azerbaijani), tauromakia (Basque), бикоборство (bikoborstvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), tauromàquia [feminine] (Catalan), 公牛戰鬥 (Chinese Mandarin), 公牛战斗 (gōngniú zhàndòu) (Chinese Mandarin), 鬥牛 (Chinese Mandarin), 斗牛 (dòuniú) (Chinese Mandarin), stierenvechten [neuter] (Dutch), härjavõitlus (Estonian), härkätaistelu (Finnish), tauromachie [feminine] (French), corrida [feminine] (French), toureo [masculine] (Galician), tauromaquia [feminine] (Galician), corrida de touros [feminine] (Galician), კორიდა (ḳorida) (Georgian), ხარების ბრძოლა (xarebis brʒola) (Georgian), Stierkampf (German), ταυρομαχία (tavromachía) (Greek), מלחמת שוורים (milkhemet shvarym) [feminine] (Hebrew), bikaviadal (Hungarian), toromachia [feminine] (Italian), corrida [feminine] (Italian), 闘牛 (tōgyū) (alt: とうぎゅう) (Japanese), 雄牛の戦い (oushi-no tatakai) (alt: おうしのたたかい) (Japanese), 황소 싸움 (hwangso ssaum) (Korean), tauromachia [feminine] (Latin), ġlieda tat-toru (Maltese), tyrefekting [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tyrefektning [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tyrefekting [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), گاوبازی (gâvbâzi) (Persian), korrida [feminine] (Polish), tauromaquia [feminine] (Portuguese), tourada [feminine] (Portuguese), corrida de touros [feminine] (Portuguese), coridă [feminine] (Romanian), бой быко́в (boj bykóv) [masculine] (Russian), корри́да (korrída) [feminine] (Russian), toreo [masculine] (Spanish), tauromaquia [feminine] (Spanish), corrida de toros [feminine] (Spanish), tjurfäktning [common-gender] (Swedish), boğa güreşi (Turkish), đấu bò (Vietnamese)

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      "code": "mt",
      "lang": "Maltese",
      "word": "ġlieda tat-toru"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tyrefekting"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tyrefektning"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tyrefekting"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "gâvbâzi",
      "word": "گاوبازی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "korrida"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tauromaquia"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tourada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "corrida de touros"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "coridă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "boj bykóv",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бой быко́в"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "korrída",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "корри́да"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "toreo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tauromaquia"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "corrida de toros"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tjurfäktning"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "word": "boğa güreşi"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "word": "đấu bò"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bullfighting"
}
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  "msg": "UNIMPLEMENTED parse_translation_template: trans-top-see {1: 'spectacle of manipulating and killing a bull', 2: 'bullfight'}",
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  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
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}

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