matador

Borrowed from Spanish matador (“killer”). Used in the English language as title for a bullfighter, however referred to as a toreador in Spain.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmætədɔɹ/

matador (plural matadors or matadores, feminine matadora)

1. (bullfighting) The person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight.
2. (uncountable) A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
3. (card games) The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, in the game of skat.
4. (card games) One of the three chief cards in ombre and quadrille.

• bullfighting
• bull ring
• picador
• tauromachy
• toreador

matador m

1. (bullfighting) matador (the person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)
   • 1930, Karel Čapek, Výlet do Španěl:

     Bledý matador jde znovu s mečem a muletou zabíjet podle pravidel hry; avšak býk se zaberanil a stojí se vztyčenou hlavou, se šíjí zježenou banderillami a jakoby přehozenou pláštěm krve.

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matador c (singular definite matadoren, plural indefinite matadorer)

1. matador (bullfighting)
2. tycoon

matador

1. Monopoly (board game)

• “matador” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from Spanish

• IPA^(key): /ma.ta.dɔʁ/

matador m (plural matadors)

1. (bullfighting) matador

• “matador” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

matar +‎ -dor

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mataˈdo(ʁ)/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mɐtɐˈðoɾ/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧dor

matador m (plural matadores, feminine matadora, feminine plural matadoras)

1. killer (someone who kills)

matador m (feminine singular matadora, masculine plural matadores, feminine plural matadoras, comparable)

1. which often kills

matar +‎ -dor.

• IPA^(key): /mataˈdoɾ/, [mat̪aˈðoɾ]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧dor

matador m (plural matadores, feminine matadora, feminine plural matadoras)

1. a slaughterer, a killer
2. (bullfighting) matador, a featured bullfighter at a bullfight event

• (bullfighter): diestro
• (murderer): asesino

• picador
• toreador