Caballero definition

kăbə-lârō, -əl-yârō, käbä-yĕrō
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A Spanish gentleman; a cavalier.
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A Spanish gentleman, cavalier, or knight.
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A man who is skilled in riding and managing horses; a horseman.
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A horseman, particularly in the Latin American context.
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A horseman.
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A lady's escort.
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Origin of caballero

  • Spanish from Late Latin caballārius horse groom from Latin caballus horse

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Spanish caballero

    From Wiktionary

Caballero Sentence Examples

  • However, retailers such as Bullet Blocker and Miguel Caballero have a lot of stylish clothing that also offers significant protection.

  • Near the end of the century Sonora and Sinaloa were divided into two districts, in 1767 the Jesuit missions were secularized, in 1779 the government of the province was definitely organized by Caballero de Croix, and in 1783 Arizpe became the provincial capital.

  • Requesens was only "a gentleman of cloak and sword" (caballero de capa y espada), though by the king's favour he was "grand commander" of the military order of Santiago in Castile.

  • But Alphonso did not use his freedom to act legibus solutus except against such hoary and incorrigible intriguers as Don Juan ci Tuerto or the Caballero Diego Gil, whom he beheaded with seventeen of his men after promising them security for their lives.

  • His flight from the monastery of Sahagun, where his brother Sancho endeavoured to imprison him, his chivalrous friendship for his host Almanun of Toledo, caballero aunque mon, a gentleman although a Moor, the passionate loyalty of his vassal Peranzules and his brotherly love for his sister Urraca of Zamora, may owe something to the poet who took him for hero.

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