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Definition: Cortes |
CortesNoun1. Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cortes" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
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Literature | Cortes (2 syl.). The Spanish or Portuguese parliament. The word means "court officers." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Cortes are a bicameral parliament, comprising the 350-member Congress of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados) and an upper chamber, the 259-member Senate (Senado).
The term is also used for the subnational parliaments of several of Spain's autonomous communities and various bodies from Spanish history.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cortes."
Synonyms: CortesSynonyms: Cortez (n), Hernan Cortes (n), Hernan Cortez (n), Hernando Cortes (n), Hernando Cortez (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Council | Senate, senatus, parliament, chamber of deputies, directory, reichsrath, rigsdag, cortes, storthing, witenagemote, junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrim; classis; Amphictyonic council; duma, house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag, volksraad, witan, caput, consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal; (tribunal); board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cortes |
| English words defined with "Cortes": Aztec ♦ Montezuma II. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cortes": Montezuma's Realm. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cortes" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Spanish (the spanish parliament). |
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 | Ferdinand Cortes and Hernando de Soto in the camp of the Inca at Caxamalca. The order of his court and the reverence with which his subjects approached his person, astonished the Spaniards / drawing by C. Colin. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Puns dept. Cortes standing on a peak. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Hernando Cortes conquered Mexico during the period 1519-21 and founded a Spanish colony that lasted nearly 300 years. (references) | |
Economic History | Spain | On February 23, 1981, rebel elements among the security forces seized the Cortes and tried to impose a military-backed government. (references) |
El Salvador | All finished goods are shipped via Guatemala's Puerto San Tomas de Castilla or Puerto Quetzal, or via Honduras' Puerto Cortes, and trucked to El Salvador. (references) | |
Spain | Under Suarez, the new Cortes set about drafting a democratic constitution that was overwhelmingly approved by voters in a December 1978 national referendum. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | Prosecutors also arrested army Major Alvaro Cortes Murillo and army Lieutenant Colonel Alfonso Zapata Gaviria. (references) |
Honduras | In February police were seen detaining the son of a Potrerillos, Cortes department, mayoral candidate and his friend. (references) | |
Colombia | The five charged are former commanders of the army's Fourth Division, retired Major General Augustin Ardila Uribe and General Jaime Humberto Cortes Parada (the army's Inspector General); former commander of the 7th Brigade, retired Brigadier General Jaime Humberto Uscategui; commander of the 2nd Brigade, General Fredy Padilla de Leon (also the former head of the 7th Brigade); and the commander of the "Joaquin Paris" battalion, Colonel Gustavo Sanchez Gutierrez. (references) | |
Political Economy | HONDURAS | On August 29, 2000, Honduras, along with Nicaragua, joined the customs union formed by Guatemala and El Salvador in 1996. In order to facilitate customs' processing, El Salvador and Guatemala established Satellite Customs' Offices at the Honduran port of Puerto Cortes and the El Amatillo border crossing between Honduras and El Salvador. (references) |
Worker Rights | Honduras | Unions represent workers in the factories located in the government-owned Puerto Cortes free trade zone (6 of 10 export assembly manufacturing firms, or maquiladoras, there are unionized); factory owners resist efforts to organize their companies in the privately owned industrial parks. (references) |
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | From the change in the Government of Spain and the negotiation now depending, invited by the Cortes and accepted by the colonies, it may be presumed, that their differences will be settled on the terms proposed by the colonies. |
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| "Cortes" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Cortes" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 66.67% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "Cortes" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cortes | Last name | 8,000 | 1,627 |
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| Spain | Hullas del Coto Cortes Sociedad Anonima |
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Expressions using "Cortes": Cortes Geraes ♦ Hernan Cortes ♦ Hernando Cortes ♦ sea of Cortes. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "Cortes"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | kortes (campaigner, canvasser). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortescay.(various references) | |
Russian | кортесы. (various references) | |
Spanish | Sección del Senado (Official Cortes Gazette), Sección del Congreso (Official Cortes Gazette), Boletín Oficial de las Cortes (Official Cortes Gazette). (various references) | |
Turkish | zar (bones, die, film, integument, lamina, membrane, pellicle, skin, tegument, velum, wall), korteks, kabuk (bark, carapace, coat, cockle, cockleshell, covering, crust, encrustation, eschar, Hull, husk, incrustation, integument, jacket, mantle, nutshell, Peel, pod, rind, scab, scale, scurf, shell, shuck, skin, squama). (various references) | |
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| Words rhyming with "Cortes" (pronounced 'Cor"tes'): Aetites, Antes, Ascites, Atlantes, Barytes, Bootes, Cerastes, Certes, Chaetetes, Clidastes, Cyphonautes, Dalmanites, Ecclesiastes, Gasteromycetes, Gerontes, Hymenomycetes, Microlestes, Mycetes, Myxomycetes, Myzontes, Nates, Nemertes, Nummulites, Optimates, Orbitolites, Penates, Pentremites, Porites, Primates, Procrustes, Pterocletes, Quirites, Rudistes, Saccharomycetes, Sarcoptes, Schizomycetes, Sorites, Troglodytes, Tympanites, Vadantes, Vagantes, Venantes. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: corset, coster, escort, rectos, scoter, sector. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: ceros, cores, corse, coset, cotes, crest, escot, recto, roset, rotes, score, store, torcs, tores, torse. | |
-2 letters: cero, core, cors, cost, cote, cots, eros, erst, orcs, ores, orts, recs, rest, rets, rocs, roes, rose, rote, rots, scot, sect, sore, sort, toes, torc, tore, tors. | |
-3 letters: cor, cos, cot, ers, oes, orc, ore, ors, ort. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: coaster, coaters, colters, cooters, copters, cornets, corsets, corslet, corvets, costers, costrel, cotters, couters, coverts, erotics, escorts, hectors, lectors, prosect, rectors, restock, rochets, rockets, rotches, scooter, scoters, scouter, sectors, stocker, tochers, torches, troches, vectors. | |
+2 letters: ancestor, bisector, botchers, brockets, cabestro, cabresto, cheroots, chortles, citreous, cloister, clotures, clouters, coarsest, coasters, coerects, coexerts, coffrets, cointers, coistrel, concerts, construe, converts, cordites, corkiest, corniest, coronets, corrects, corselet, corseted, corsetry, corslets, corteges, cortexes, cortices, costlier, costrels, costumer, coteries, cottiers, coulters, counters, courters, courtesy, coutures, coveters, cowrites, creators, creosote, crochets, crockets, crofters, croquets, crossest, crosslet, crosstie, crotches, crownets, crowstep, crustose, customer, cutovers, ectosarc, eductors, ejectors, electors, electros, enactors, erectors, escargot, escorted, esoteric, evictors, exactors, excitors, exorcist, forecast, fructose, locaters, mortices, notchers, noticers, outcries, outcurse, outraces, outscore, overacts, overcast, overcuts, postrace, projects, prosects, prospect, protects, reactors, recounts, redcoats, restocks, rockiest, scooters, scouters, scouther, secretor, sectoral, sectored, selector, sprocket, stockers, stockier, stuccoer, thoraces, touchers, trochees, trounces, vortices. | |
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