Definitions
Etymologies
- Spanish, from Old Spanish omne, from Latin homō, homin-; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Some one with that kind of sentence must have been a bad hombre from the start.”
“This hombre is bigger than any I've yet seen, and he's only 20 yards away.”
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“Greetings PDX hombre from a hombre from across the Columbia to the north.”
“If it is women asking, I tell them I do have a man and introduce them to my dog "hombre".”
“I'm the kind of hombre who enjoys to taste unprecedented stuff.”
“Because of the popularity of old Western movies, words such as hombre, pinto, and patio entered the general English vocabulary.”
“This "hombre" was on a one way path for destruction, with or without alcohol.”
“Para entonces, la curiosidad le había picado al juez quien estaba un tanto interesado en lo que Chon estaba tratando de decir, así que le dijo al licenciado: -- “Me gustaría saber que es lo que el hombre tiene que decir de Bessie, su vaquita preferida.””
Chon y su vaca favorita Bessie/ a joke that requires translating
“El licenciado interrumpió de nuevo y dijo -- Su señoría, estoy tratando de establecer el hecho de que en la escena del accidente este hombre le dijo al patrullero de caminos que se encontraba bien, ahora, varias semanas después está tratando de cobrar una demanda a mi cliente y creo que esto es un fraude.”
Chon y su vaca favorita Bessie/ a joke that requires translating
“I put my hombre on a plane last Saturday from Norfolk to Mexico City.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hombre’.
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
sinopia, replevin, lathee, hoisin, kerygma, czardas, amoxicillin, talipes, simoleon, hypermnesia, anodyne, mystique and 238 more...
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Words that start with a silent H
honor, honest, heir, herb, hors d'oeuvre, hour, homage, hola, heiress, hombre, honorific, honorable and 1 more...
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No Hablo Español
Despite seven years of classes and being half-Puerto Rican.
uno, dos, tres, quatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce and 198 more...
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Spelling Bee list 2011
Abalone, ablution, absolution, aboriginally, abstemious, academician, acclamation, accommodation, acculturation, acetic, acetone, acme and 590 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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It was good enough for Billy Burroughs
smack, dope, junk, mud, h, skag, black tar, horse, brown sugar, chiva, boy, black and 237 more...
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Are We Not Men?
man, male, masculine, macho, dude, guy, manly, boy, father, gentleman, monsieur, fellow and 34 more...
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Awaydays (2009)
Words from a 2009 'Awaydays' film.
catch up, beaut, swill, ponce, buck, bevvy, la, divvy, baddie, noose, deffo, mooch around and 36 more...
Tweets
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