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Definition: Corrida |
CorridaNoun1. A Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: CorridaSynonym: bullfight (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Corrida |
| Non-English Usage: "Corrida" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (bullfight), Italian (bullfight), Portuguese (career, chevy, course, foot race, march, race, racing, run, running, tantivy), Portuguese Brazilian (ride), Spanish (arena, bullfight, run). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Corrida do Ouro (1974) La Corrida de toros (1970) Corrida pour un espion (1965) La Corrida (1965) Corrida de Feria (1961) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Una corrida de toros o el amor de Luisa. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Corrida old cars" by Djalma Patricio Commentary: "Old car, Rio Negro - Parana." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| "Corrida" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Corrida" is used about 6 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 (singular) | 66.67% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 16.67% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 "corrida"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | bikaviadal (bull-fight, bull-fighting, tauromachy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | コミュニケーション科学基礎研究所 (choral, collaboration, collaborative, collaborator, collage, collagen, collie, column, columnist, COM, COMECON, comedian, comedy, comet, Cominform, comment, commentator, comment-out, committee, common, common carrier, common language, common sense, Commonwealth Day, communicate, Communication Science Laboratories, communications intelligence, communications satellite, communicator, communism, communist, Communist Information Bureau, community, community care, community center, community college, community media, community paper, community school, community sports, computer output microfilm system, comsat, corundum, Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, Komintern, Komsomol, Korea, operator in a telemarketing business, stand-alone feature article framed by a box). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | コリーダ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orridacay.(various references) | |
Romanian | coridã (bullfight). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "corrida": corridas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-o-r-r" | |
-2 letters: acrid, ardor, aroid, caird, coria, daric, radio. | |
-3 letters: acid, arco, arid, cadi, caid, card, carr, ciao, coda, coir, cord, dorr, odic, orad, orca, orra, raid, road, roar. | |
-4 letters: ado, aid, air, arc, cad, car, cod, cor, doc, dor, oar, oca, ora, orc, rad, ria, rid, roc, rod. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, ar, do, id, od. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-o-r-r" | |
+1 letter: corridas. | |
+2 letters: barricado, coriander, corrading. | |
+3 letters: cardiogram, cordillera, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, eradicator, madreporic, microfarad, orchardist. | |
+4 letters: barricadoed, barricadoes, cardiograms, cardiograph, charbroiled, comraderies, coordinator, cordilleran, cordilleras, cordwainers, cordwainery, counterraid, depreciator, dimercaprol, dipterocarp, directorate, directorial, discourager, doctrinaire, eradicators, harpsichord, microfarads, microreader, orchardists, predicatory, radiocarbon, radiometric, radiotracer, recordation, varicolored. | |
+5 letters: achlorhydria, achlorhydric, androcentric, barricadoing, cardiographs, cardiography, contradictor, coordinators, counterraids, decarbonizer, decorticator, democratizer, depreciators, depreciatory, dimercaprols, dipterocarps, directorates, discographer, discouragers, doctrinaires, ferrocyanide, harpsichords, hydrographic, incorporated, micrographed, microreaders, overdramatic, perichondral, perichondria, radiocarbons, radiographic, radiotracers, reciprocated, recordations, redecorating, redecoration. | |
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