Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A slow, easy stroll or walk outdoors.
- n. The street, series of streets, or walkway along which such a walk is taken.
- n. In bullfighting, the formal procession into the ring of the players, including the matadors, banderilleros, and horses, that occurs just before the first bull is fought.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as pasear.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. a path set aside for walking
Etymologies
- From Spanish paseo. (Wiktionary)
- Spanish, from pasear, to take a stroll, frequentative of pasar, to go, pass; see pase. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This paseo is the fashionable promenade and drive from five to seven P.M. every day, and specially on Sunday afternoon.”
“We will be having our monthly "paseo" this second Sunday (December 10) starting at 9AM, leaving from the Parque Júarez in front of the Palacio Municipal.”
“The "paseo" meets at 9 AM at the Parque Juarez in downtown Xalapa and will last about 2 hours.”
“On Sunday evenings, the plaza is transformed into a scene of intense social activity as the townspeople gather to participate in the weekly "paseo" in which young ladies, elegantly attired, walk clockwise around the central bandstand, whilst young men walk in the opposite direction.”
“The few days spent in Havana were pleasantly passed in sight-seeing; the afternoons being devoted to a ride upon the "paseo," and the evenings closed by a visit to the noted "Dominica" the principal café of the city.”
“Julia that they should take a 'paseo' in the garden the elder lady made no objection.”
“We took a pretty long 'paseo' (walk / stroll) on our way to the Picasso Museum of Barcelona.”
“The moon over Miami was crescent, a warm breeze ruffled multi-lighted coconut palm fronds, dogs with hats yapped under the tables and around splashing fountains, long-legged Latinas and buff fellas, tourists and druggies and varied genders preened in an endless paseo.”
“In Spain the stroll – or paseo as they call it in these parts – is something of an institution.”
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“On sultry summer evenings the royal parks might host a paseo, a parade of the fashionable and nubile as presently performed "by smartly dressed families and keen youth" in southern Europe.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘paseo’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Spring
famulus, congeries, pogonotrophy, rosarian, anomie, aiguillette, paseo, insouciant, gimcrack, atheling, chelonian
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difficult words
ordure, tatterwallop, callipygian, odious, colophon, cynosure, hardener, emollience, valetudinarian, demonym, volage, polysemantic and 280 more...
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The Troublesome Offspring Of Cardinal...
Words and names discovered or re-discovered while reading and re-reading this awesome book.
LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES, the Navantes, the Cusicuari, the Kogi, the Acahuatecs, Mount Aconcagua, Hoy, miedo, escandalice, puede, hablar, ingenio and 328 more...
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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2007bee-r03
antioxidant, rambla, trafficking, volplane, sluice, jettison, insomnolence, egyptiac, claque, provincial, satisfice, trumpery and 95 more...
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Where the Streets Have a Name
In my life I've lived on an avenue, a drive, and uh, a park southwest. Maybe someday I can live on a mews.
street, avenue, lane, parkway, road, alley, drive, boulevard, mews, way, walk, court and 26 more...
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Tauromachy
Bullfighting terms used in the Hemingway book "The Dangerous Summer"
aficionado, alternativa, apartado, arena, banderilla, banderillero, barrera, brío, burladero, callejón, capa, capote and 77 more...
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High School Literature Vocabulary 2
Highschool literature vocabulary words.
pas de basque, caper, paseo, billet-doux, danseur, danseuse, eclat, eclectic, infamy, rusticate
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vanishedone Times: 'Summer is coming and the strolling season beckons. Or rather it does to those Italians, Bulgarians and Spanish who enjoy, respectively, the pleasures of the passegiatta edit: missing a g; see bilby's comment on it, the korso, and the paseo — which have been a part of European life for centuries.
'Summer? The paseo? Well, think of a favoured spot — square, garden, avenue — where people meet after work or at weekends to walk up and down. Men and women walk up and down, young and old walk up and down, rich and poor walk up and down. The activity is instinctive and inclusive. It has always had significance.' Feb 19, 2009