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vaquero

/vɑˈkɛɹoʊ/

vaquero noun: a cowboy; a herdsman.

Noun

vaquero (plural vaqueros or vaqueroes)

  1. (Southwestern, US) A cowboy; a herdsman.
    • A day or two before a number of vaqueroes set out for the Santa Cruz Mountains and lassoed a very big grizzly.1925, Quarterly of the Society of California Pioneers, page 232
    • Voices from the Wild Horse Desert is the story of vaquero families who have lived and worked on the prominent King and Kenedy Ranches of South Texas for six generations. Vaqueros (Mexican cowboys) are the highly skilled work force that cares for and works the cattle day by day.1997, Jane Clements Monday, Betty Bailey Colley, Voices from the Wild Horse Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches, University of Texas Press, page ix

Proper noun capitalized: Vaquero

Vaquero (plural Vaqueros)

  1. A surname from Spanish.

vaquero meaning in Tamil and Urdu

vaquero in Tamil

ஆயமகன்

vaquero in Urdu

گوالا

Forms of vaquero

Noun
pluralvaqueros
pluralvaqueroes
Proper noun
pluralVaqueros

Origin of vaquero

From Spanish vaquero (“cowherd”), from vaca (“cow”). Doublet of buckaroo.

Borrowed from Spanish Vaquero, from vaquero (“herdsman”).

Questions about vaquero

What does vaquero mean?
Vaquero means a cowboy; a herdsman.
What is vaquero in Tamil?
Vaquero in Tamil is ஆயமகன். See Vaquero meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vaquero?
Vaquero can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce vaquero?
Vaquero is pronounced /vɑˈkɛɹoʊ/.
What is the plural of vaquero?
The plural of vaquero is vaqueros.

Words near vaquero in the dictionary

  1. Vaquerano
  2. Vaqueranos
  3. Vaqueras
  4. vaqueria
  5. vaquerias
  6. vaquero
  7. vaqueroes
  8. vaqueros
  9. Vaquez
  10. Vaquez disease
  11. vaquita

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vaquero (page history and authors); Vaquero (page history and authors); vaquero (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vaquero (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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