matador

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈma.tə.dɔː/[1]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmæ.tə.dɔɹ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ætədɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: mat‧a‧dor

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatador]
• Hyphenation: me‧ta‧dor

matador m anim (feminine matadorka)

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 in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• matador in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Spanish matador.

• Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

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 matador.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ta.dɔʁ/

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matador m (plural matadors)

1. (bullfighting) matador

• “matador”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from Spanish matador.

• IPA^(key): /maˈta.dɔr/

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• Rhymes: -adɔr
• Syllabification: ma‧ta‧dor

matador m pers

1. matador (the person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)

• matador in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• matador in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From matar +‎ -dor.

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾ, (Brazil) -oʁ
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta‧dor

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

1. which kills
2. (figurative) seductive

   olhar matador ― seductive look

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

1. killer (someone who kills)

• “matador” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Borrowed from French matador.

matador m (plural matadori)

1. (bullfighting) matador

By surface analysis, matar (“kill”) +‎ -dor (agent suffix). May correspond to Latin mactātōrem (“slayer, killer, slaughterer”), but the origin of the base verb matar is disputed.

• Rhymes: -oɾ
• IPA^(key): /mataˈdoɾ/ [ma.t̪aˈð̞oɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧ta‧dor

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

1. a slaughterer, a killer

   Synonym: asesino

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

   Synonym: diestro

• picador
• toreador

• “matador”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

matador c

1. (bullfighting) a matador

• matador in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• matador in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• matador in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Borrowed from Spanish matador.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /mataˈdoɾ/ [mɐ.tɐˈdoɾ]
• Rhymes: -oɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧ta‧dor

matador (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜆᜇᜓᜇ᜔)

1. butcher

   Synonyms: matadero, magkakarne

2. (bullfighting) matador; bullfighter

   Synonyms: toreador, torero

• “matador” at KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino‎, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2021
• “matador”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018