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Pedro

Syllables: Pe·droUK/ˈpɛdɹəʊ//ˈpeɪdɹoʊ/

Pedro noun: an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.

Noun

Pedro (countable and uncountable, plural Pedros or Pedroes)

  1. An American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.
  2. The five of trumps in certain card games.
  3. (US) The standard callsign for an aircraft participating in CSAR (“combat search and rescue”), typically a helicopter.

Proper noun

Pedro

  1. A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Peter.

Forms of Pedro

pluralPedros
pluralPedroes

Origin of Pedro

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Peter, Piers, Pietro, and Boutros.

Phrases with Pedro

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Questions about Pedro

What does Pedro mean?
Pedro means an American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.
What part of speech is Pedro?
Pedro can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Pedro?
Pedro is pronounced /ˈpɛdɹəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of Pedro?
The plural of Pedro is Pedros.

Words near Pedro in the dictionary

  1. pedreros
  2. Pedretti
  3. Pedrettis
  4. Pedrick
  5. pedrizite
  6. Pedro
  7. Pedro Sancho
  8. Pedro Ximénez
  9. Pedro Ximénezes
  10. Pedrosa
  11. Pedrosas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pedro (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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