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Hombre   /hˈɑmbrə/   Listen
Hombre

noun
1.
An informal term for a youth or man.  Synonyms: bozo, cat, guy.  "The guy's only doing it for some doll"






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"Hombre" Quotes from Famous Books



... cosa mas alegre que en la vida, Permite al ser mortal humana gloria, Es la patria del hombre tan querida Despues ...
— Gomez Arias - The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. • Joaquin Telesforo de Trueba y Cosio

... with an ingenuousness calculated to allay my unpleasant fancies, "the Utah chief is a noble fellow—un hombre de bien—besides, he would have done anything for his old friend—whose death greatly grieved him. That is just why you see him here in such haste. It was not to avenge your wrongs that they danced ...
— The Wild Huntress - Love in the Wilderness • Mayne Reid

... this passage is obscure I give it here: ... profundos como de la altura de un hombre, en cuanto pueda el de abajo dar la tierra al de arriba; y cuando los cavan tanto que ya el de arriba no puede alcanzarla, lo dejan asi, y se van a hacer otros ...
— An Account of the Conquest of Peru • Pedro Sancho

... defective knowledge of the speaker, and so merely observes without feeling them. This is the meaning of that remark of Gracian, that nothing is more unworthy of a man than to let it be seen that he is one—el mayor desdoro de un hombre es dar muestras ...
— The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism • Arthur Schopenhauer

... derived from the Spanish hombreman. The one who undertakes the game has to beat each of the other two; if he fails he is said to have been beasted and pays a forfeit to the pool. It has been suggested that 'unable to sustain himself as a man, Hombre, he becomes beast.' c.f. The Feign'd Astrologer, iii, I (4to 1668), where ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn


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