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Definition: Padrone |
PadroneNoun1. An owner or proprietor of an inn in Italy. 2. An employer who exploits Italian immigrants in the U.S. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Padrone \Pa*dro"ne\, noun; plural Italian Padroni, English Padrones. [Italian See Patron.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Master | Noun: master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader; (director); boss,Noun: master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader; (director); boss, cockarouse, sagamore, werowance. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Padrone |
| English words defined with "padrone": Padrones, Padroni. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Padrone" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (ma'am, madam, Madame), Italian (boss, chief, host, landlord, Lord, manager, master, owner, padrone). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Il Padrone delle ferriere (1959) Cretinetti vuol sposare la figlia del padrone (1910) Padre padrone (1977) Il Padrone e l'operaio (1975) | |
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| "Padrone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Padrone" 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.
| 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 |
padrone | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "padrone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | работодател (employer, gaffer, master), ханджия (hosteler, innkeeper, landlord, publican), капитан (captain, sailing master, skipper), гостилничар (victualler), господар (arbiter, boss, governor, master, prince, proprietor, ruler, sircar). (various references) | |
Farsi | مدیر (Director, Helmsman, Manager, Master), صاحب (Lord), ارباب (Boss, Esquire, Lord, Master, Overlord, Squire). (various references) | |
Greek | ιταλόσ εργοδότησ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | kocsmáros (barkeeper, host, innkeeper, publican, saloon-keeper, tapster). (various references) | |
Italian | padrone (boss, chief, host, landlord, Lord, manager, master, owner). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adronepay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | proprietário (keeper, owner, proprietary, proprietor, riparian). (various references) | |
Russian | хозяин гостиницы (innkeeper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | vlasnik trgovačkog broda, kafedžija (barkeeper, innkeeper). (various references) | |
Spanish | hotelero (hotel, hotelier), capitán (boss, captain, chief, commander, leader, master mariner, owner, skip, skipper). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | капітан (captain), господар готелю (innkeeper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "padrone": padrones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "padrone" (pronounced 'Pa*dro"ne'): Abalone, Acne, Benne, Canzone, Chelone, Cicerone, Clione, Conversazi-one, Dampne, Daphne, Fonne, krone, Melne, Nempne, Osanne, Oughne, Pallone, Paraselene, Progne, Rekne, Ronne, silene, Solempne, Somne, Sompne, Violone, Wilne, Yronne. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: aproned, operand, pandore. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: pander, pardon, ponder, repand. | |
-2 letters: adore, adorn, anode, apron, arpen, denar, doper, drape, drone, oared, opera, oread, padre, paeon, paned, pared, pareo, pedro, pored, prone, radon, raped, redan, redon, roped. | |
-3 letters: aeon, aero, aped, aper, apod, dare, darn, dean, dear, doer, dona, done, dopa, dope, dore, dorp, drop, earn, nape, nard, neap, near. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-o-p-r" | |
+1 letter: dognaper, endocarp, expandor, operands, orphaned, padrones, pandores, pardoned, pardoner, pomander, profaned, pronated. | |
+2 letters: davenport, dognapers, dognapper, endocarps, expandors, godparent, harpooned, paragoned, pardoners, pinafored, pomanders, ponderosa, poniarded, predation, preordain, promenade. | |
+3 letters: chaperoned, davenports, dognappers, godparents, hydrophane, hydroplane, jeoparding, overexpand, palindrome, panbroiled, paperbound, pardonable, parenthood, patronised, patronized, personated, picarooned, ponderable, ponderosas, predations, preordains, promenaded, promenader, promenades, protonated, pteranodon, pyranoside, radiophone, readopting, ropedancer, scorpaenid, transposed, unapproved. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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