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Toreador

Definition: Toreador

Toreador

Noun

1. Someone who fights bulls.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "toreador" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)

Etymology: Toreador \To"re*a*dor`\, noun. [Spanish, from torear to fight bulls, from Latin taurus bull.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Toreador

Synonym: bullfighter (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Toreador

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In bullfighting, a toreador (torero) is a matador. The Toreador are a fictional clan of vampires, associated with the Camarilla, from White Wolf's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. Their symbol is the thorned rose. White Wolf states, "[Toreador sample] the delights of each age as a gourmand savors rare delicacies." (VtM3 -- p.68) This clan is described as having an "obession" with anything artistic; as a result, the Toreador find the Nosferatu to be especially revolting.

References

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toreador."

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Crosswords: Toreador

English words defined with "toreador": Tauridor. (references)
Etymologies containing "toreador": Tauridor. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Toreador" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (bullfighter, toreador), Czech (toreador), Italian (toreador), Romanian (toreador), Serbo-Croatian (bullfighter, toreador), Spanish (toreador), Swedish (toreador), Turkish (toreador).

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Modern Usage: Toreador

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Tommy the Toreador (1959)

A Torrid Toreador (1942)

The Timid Toreador (1940)

El Terrible Toreador (1929)

Alice the Toreador (1925)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Toreador

DomainTitle

References

  • Toreador Resources Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Clanbook: Toreador (reference)

  • La escritura como espejo de palacio : El toreador de Calderón (reference)

  • Toreador (reference)

  • Toreador (The Clan Novel Series, no. 1) (reference)

  • TOREADOR RESOURCES CORP: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Toreador

Computer Images:
Toreador

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Photo Album: Toreador

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Toreador attento. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: Toreador

"Toreador" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Toreador" is used about 2 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Toreador

CountryName
USA

Toreador Resources Corp.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Toreador

Expression using "toreador": toreador pant. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Toreador

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

toreador

61

hallucinogenic toreador

9

clan toreador

7

stier toreador

6

toreador song

5

fresco toreador

4

toreador resource

3

carmen toreador

3

art toreador

3

by dali hallucinogenic salvador toreador

2

picture toreador

2

dali hallucinogenic toreador

2

costume toreador

2

midi toreador

2

bull fighting toreador

2

toreador vampire

2

masquerade toreador vampire

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Toreador

Language Translations for "toreador"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

toreador (bullfighter). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مصارع الثيران. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

тореадор (bullfighter, matador), бикоборец (bullfighter). (various references)

   

Czech

  

toreador. (various references)

   

French

  

toréador (torero). (various references)

   

German

  

Stierfechter. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ταυρομάχοσ (bullfighter, matador). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לוחם שורים (bullfighter). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

torreádor (bull-fighter), bikaviador (bull-fighter). (various references)

   

Italian

  

toreador. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

トルコ帽 (fez, house trailer, sweat pants, sweat shirt, sweatshirt, tolerance, Tolstoy, toreador pants, tornado, torso, tortilla, trace, tracer, tracing, tracing paper, trade, trade money, trade show, trade union, trademark, trade-off, trader, trading, trading company, trail bike, trailer, trailer bus, trailer house, train, trainer, training, training camp, training pants, training shoes, training wear, training wizard, tray, tread, trekker, tremolo, trench coat, trenching, troubadour, very good). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

トレアドル . (various references)

   

Manx

  

tarrooder, caggeyder terriu (bullfighter, matador). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oreadortay

   

Portuguese

  

toureiro (bullfighter, matador). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

toreador. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

тореадор (bullfighter). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

toreador (bullfighter). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

torero, toreador (torero), torero (bullfighter), toreador. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

toreador. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toreador, boğa güreşçisi (bullfighter, matador, torero), atlı boğa güreşçisi. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

тореадор (bull-fighter). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Toreador

Derivations

Words beginning with "toreador": toreadors. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Toreador" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Toleafoa, tordado, toreado, toreadore, Torihada, torneado, Torodov, torreador, Treaddur, treader, Tremadoc, Tresadern, Troisdord, Troisdorf. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Toreador

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-o-o-r-r-t"

-1 letter: redroot.

-2 letters: adorer, darter, orated, orator, retard, roadeo, roared, rooted, rooter, tarred, torero, trader.

-3 letters: adore, ardor, darer, dater, derat, doter, drear, oared, oater, orate, order, oread, rared, rated, rater, retro, rodeo, rotor, tardo, tared, tarre, terra, trade, tread, trode.

-4 letters: aero, dare, dart, date, dato, dear, doat, doer, door, dore, dorr, dote, drat.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-o-o-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: decorator, moderator, outroared, toreadors.

 

+2 letters: decorators, derogatory, moderators, orthograde, prorogated.

 

+3 letters: footdragger, motherboard, ostracoderm, petrodollar, predoctoral, recordation, redecorator, urochordate.

 

+4 letters: androsterone, carrottopped, corroborated, creaturehood, decorticator, demonstrator, derogatorily, dextrorotary, dorsolateral, dorsoventral, footdraggers, granodiorite, incorporated, motherboards, ostracoderms, overdecorate, overoperated, petrodollars, recordations, redecoration, redecorators, storyboarded, urochordates, waterproofed.

 

+5 letters: androsterones, cotransported, creaturehoods, decorticators, demonstrators, deterioration, granodiorites, hydrothoraces, hydrothoraxes, moderatorship, overdecorated, overdecorates, preordination, reapportioned, redecorations, trapezohedron.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Toreador


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 6F 72 65 61 64 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-    ---    .-.    .    .-    -..    ---    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01101111 01110010 01100101 01100001 01100100 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#111 &#114 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 006F 0072 0065 0061 0064 006F 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5481847167708184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern 		5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Usage Frequency 		9. Names: Company Usage
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern 		13. Derivations
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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