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Definition: Hombre |
HombreNoun1. An informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "hombre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references) |
Synonyms: HombreSynonyms: bozo (n), cat (n), guy (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Paternity | Phrase: avi numerantur avorum; "happy he with such a mother"; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo; philosophia stemma non inspicit. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Hombre |
| Non-English Usage: "Hombre" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Hungarian (ombre), Spanish (Cully, fellow, hubby, human being, husband, inamorato, light, love, man, old bean). |
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Screenplays | I like your style hombre but this is no laughing matter (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin) From the moment I slapped eyes on this hombre, I smelled trouble (Maverick; writing credit: William Goldman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Historia de un hombre de 561 años (1974) Un Hombre como los demás (1974) El Hombre y la tierra: Serie ibérica (1974) Mi hombre sin noche (1974) Las Manos del hombre (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Mi hombre; and Mi noche triste. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | La norteña; Los sucesos de la huelga; Mi hombre; y Mi noche triste. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lee libros anarquýstas y seras un hombre. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Mio Hombre" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "Another freetime favourite model - ." | "Cuban Kids near Cienfuegos" by Gabino Travassos Commentary: "I spent an afternoon chasing these kids around their farmyard. The only Spanish I knew was "Yo El Hombre Secreto!" or "I am a secret agent man." I think they thought that was pretty funny." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| "Hombre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Hombre" is used about 3 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) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "hombre": hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 "hombre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | hombre (kártyajáték) (ombre). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ombrehay.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "hombre": hombres. (additional references) | |
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"Hombre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Haimbe, Hambra, hambre, Hambrey, hobre, Hoburne, hofbrau, Holborne, holburne, Holbury, Holmbyre, Homberg, homble, homebar, Hongre, honre, honure, Horbar, humber, Humbrol, Kombruk, nombre, Ohngren. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hombre" (pronounced hÄ"mbru) |
| 4 | -m b r u | Penumbra, umbra. |
| 3 | -b r u | Abracadabra, algebra, candelabra, Cobra, Libra, macabre, Sabra, vertebra, zebra. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-h-m-o-r" | |
-1 letter: brome, homer, omber, ombre, rhomb. | |
-2 letters: berm, bore, herb, herm, hero, hoer, home, more, omer, robe. | |
-3 letters: bro, hem, her, hob, hoe, mho, mob, mor, obe, ohm, orb, ore, reb, rem, rho, rob, roe, rom. | |
-4 letters: be, bo, eh, em, er, he, hm, ho, me, mo, oe, oh, om, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-h-m-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bioherm, hombres. | |
+2 letters: bichrome, bioherms, homebred, homebrew, hornbeam, rehoboam, rhabdome. | |
+3 letters: chemisorb, homebreds, homebrews, hornbeams, rehoboams, rhabdomes, rhombuses. | |
+4 letters: bichromate, bothersome, chemisorbs, embouchure, phlebogram, rhabdomere, rhomboidei, smoothbore, thromboses. | |
+5 letters: bachelordom, beachcomber, behaviorism, bichromated, bichromates, bimorphemic, blameworthy, bumbershoot, chemisorbed, chromophobe, embouchures, embryophyte, misbehavior, motherboard, phlebograms, rhabdomeres, rhombohedra, rhomboideus, smoothbores, theobromine, thrombocyte, thromboxane. | |
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