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Definition: Picador |
PicadorNoun1. The horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "picador" was first used: 1797. (references) |
Etymology: Picador \Pic`a*dor"\, noun. [Spanish expression]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Picador (Spanish). A horseman; one who in bull fights is armed with a gilt spear (pica-dorada), with which he pricks the bull to madden him for the combat. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: Picador |
| Non-English Usage: "Picador" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (picador), Portuguese (horsecloth, pricker), Romanian (picador), Spanish (hasher, picador), Swedish (picador). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Picador Porky (1937) Le Picador (1932) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A picador, bullfight, Matomoros, Mexico.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Picador" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "Picador" is used about 17 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 (proper) | 64.71% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (singular) | 35.29% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "picador": picador-quilled. | |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
picador | 21 |
picador usa | 3 |
cebollas de picador | 3 |
picador publishing | 2 |
picador press | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "picador"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pikador. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | البيكادور فارس يفتتح مصارعة الثيران. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | пикадор. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pikador. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | picador. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pikador. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ピアノ線 (atomic bomb, clown, piano wire, picaresque, Picasso, piccata, piggyback, pioneer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ピカドール . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | icadorpay picador. (various references) пикадор. (various references) pikador. (various references) picador (hasher). (various references) picador. (various references) пікадор. (various references) người đấu bò (bullfighter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "picador": picadores, picadors. (additional references) | |
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"Picador" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Isador, iscador, Nicandro, Nicanor, parador, Pcdob, Pesando, Piacore, picanor, picao, Picarda, Picauo, Picidae, Pisador, piscivore, Pistacor, Puciato. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: parodic. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: picaro. | |
-2 letters: acrid, aroid, caird, carpi, copra, coria, daric, padri, pardi, podia, radio, rapid. | |
-3 letters: acid, apod, arco, arid, cadi, caid, capo, card, carp, ciao, coda, coir, cord, crap, crop, dopa, dorp, drip, drop, odic, orad, orca, padi, paid, pair, pard, pica, prao, proa, prod, raid, road. | |
-4 letters: ado, aid, air, arc, cad, cap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: picadors, podagric, sporadic. | |
+2 letters: aperiodic, caprioled, chipboard, clipboard, dropsical, picadores, picofarad, podiatric, rhapsodic. | |
+3 letters: brachiopod, chipboards, clipboards, duplicator, madreporic, parodistic, periodical, picarooned, picofarads, predacious, proclaimed, prosodical, scorpaenid, sporicidal. | |
+4 letters: aphrodisiac, brachiopods, branchiopod, caparisoned, cardiograph, cardiopathy, caryopsides, comradeship, copyreading, decapitator, demographic, deprecation, depreciator, diaphoretic, diastrophic, dimercaprol, dipterocarp, discography, duplicators, harpsichord, hydropathic, ideographic, idiographic, orthopaedic, palindromic, paradoxical, periodicals, predication, predicatory, rhapsodical, ropedancing, scorpaenids. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 69 63 61 64 6F 72 |
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