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vaqueros

vaqueros is the plural of vaquero.

Meaning of vaquero

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Vaqueros

Vaqueros

  1. (plural) plural of Vaquero

Questions about vaqueros

What is vaqueros the plural of?
Vaqueros is the plural of vaquero.
What part of speech is vaqueros?
Vaqueros is a proper noun.

Words near vaqueros in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vaqueros (page history and authors); Vaqueros (page history and authors); vaquero (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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