hombre
/ˈɑmbɹeɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[W]e're glad to learn that the Yankee bullet has not quite stopped your breath. You're all right, hombre!"
- "That hombre now with the worn out hat, tattered shirt, and fragmentary breeches, wears a sword. Bless you, his dignity would suffer greatly without it!"
- "Coming towards us was the biggest, meanest looking hombre I'd ever seen."
- "The foreman. As tough an hombre who ever lived. If Mr. Bell had sent Jackson instead of me, he'd take your rifle and beat you half to death with it."
- "There was a pause I didn't like, punctuated by shrieks of shrill laughter from the hombres at the bar. Only Mexicans can laugh like that."
- "Spanish has become a sanctioned indicator of potential criminality in the United States of America. The language of Miguel de Cervantes and Andrés Cantor, the world’s fourth most spoken tongue, has been deemed the sound of bad hombres in our midst."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-ōm Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm Proto-Indo-European *-ō Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ Proto-Italic *hemō Latin hemō Latin homō Latin hominem Old Spanish omne Spanish hombrebor. English hombre Borrowed from Spanish hombre (“man; human being”). Doublet of gome, homo, ombre, and omi.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɑmbɹeɪ/
- British English: /ˈɒmbɹeɪ/