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hombre

Syllables: hom·breUK/ˈɒmbɹeɪ//ˈɑmbɹeɪ/

hombre noun: a man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.

hombre: a man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man
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Noun

hombre (plural hombres)

  1. (US, slang) A man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
    • [W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!c. 1850, [Thomas] Mayne Reid, “A Group of Jarochos”, in The Guerilla^([sic]) Chief, and Other Tales, London: C. H. Clarke, 13, Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 62
    • That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!1852 March 8, E. P., “Golden Correspondence.—No. 1”, in J[oseph] M. Church, editor, Church’s Bizarre. For Fireside and Wayside, volume I, number 1 (New Series), Philadelphia, Pa.: Church & Co., 140...

Examples of hombre in a sentence

  • Coming towards us was the biggest, meanest looking hombre I'd ever seen.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 92:
  • There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar.2016, Lawrence Winkler, “Bajada”, in Orion’s Cartwheel (Cartwheels Quadrilogy; 1), Victoria, B.C.: First Choice Books, →ISBN, page 22:
  • The language of Miguel de Cervantes and Andrés Cantor, the world’s fourth most spoken tongue, has been deemed the sound of bad hombres in our midst.2025 October 20, Carlos Lozada, “You Caught Me. I’m Speaking Spanish.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...

Forms of hombre

pluralhombres

Origin of hombre

Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.

Questions about hombre

What does hombre mean?
Hombre means a man, a chap, a guy; especially a Hispanic or Spanish man.
How do you use hombre in a sentence?
Coming towards us was the biggest, meanest looking hombre I'd ever seen.
What part of speech is hombre?
Hombre is a noun.
How do you pronounce hombre?
Hombre is pronounced /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/ (UK).
What is the plural of hombre?
The plural of hombre is hombres.

Words near hombre in the dictionary

  1. Homas
  2. homatomic
  3. homatropine
  4. Homberg
  5. Homberg's phosphorus
  6. hombre
  7. hombres
  8. homburg
  9. Homburg hat
  10. Homburg hats
  11. Homburged

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