"toreador" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: toreadors [plural], toreadores [plural]
Etymology: From Spanish toreador, from torear (“to fight bulls”), from toro (“bull”), from Latin taurus. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|toreador}} Spanish toreador, {{der|en|la|taurus}} Latin taurus Head templates: {{en-noun|s|toreadores}} toreador (plural toreadors or toreadores)
  1. (bullfighting) A bullfighter, especially one on horseback. Categories (topical): Bullfighting Synonyms: torero Derived forms: toreador pants Related terms: matador Translations (a bullfighter): toreru [masculine] (Asturian), torejador [masculine] (Catalan), torero [masculine] (Catalan), toreisto (Esperanto), toreadori (Finnish), härkätaistelija (Finnish), toréador [masculine] (French), toréro [masculine] (French), torero [masculine] (French), toureiro [masculine] (Galician), lidador [masculine] (Galician), Torero [masculine] (German), Stierfechter [masculine] (German), toreador (Indonesian), tarbhadóir [masculine] (Irish), tarbhchomhraiceoir [masculine] (Irish), torero (Italian), 투우사 (tuusa) (alt: 鬪牛士) (Korean), тореа́дор (toreádor) [masculine] (Macedonian), toreador [masculine] (Polish), torreador [masculine] (Polish), toureiro (Portuguese), toireiro [masculine] (Portuguese), toureador [masculine] (Portuguese), toreador [masculine] (Romanian), torero [masculine] (Romanian), тореадо́р (toreadór) [masculine] (Russian), torero (Spanish), toreador [masculine] (Spanish), toreador (Swedish), tjurfäktare (Swedish), toreador (Turkish)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.