Carmen

¹

[kahr-muhn, kahr-men]

noun

1. Ciudad del Carmen.

2. a male or female given name: from a Latin word meaning “song.”

Carmen

²

[kahr-muhn, kar-men]

noun

1. an opera (1875) by Georges Bizet.

Carmen

1. One of the most popular of operas, composed by Georges Bizet, and first produced in the late nineteenth century. The title character is known for manipulating men. One of her victims, a Spanish soldier, arranges for her to escape from jail, but she later abandons him for a bullfighter, and he stabs her. The pieces “Habanera” and “Toreador Song” are well-known excerpts from Carmen.

Example Sentences

At least that’s how Carmen Argote sees it.

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Also from Venezuela was Maria Carmen Rendiles Martinez, a nun born without a left arm who overcame her disability to found the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus before her death in 1977.

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People screamed out, cried or laughed as a priest shouted, "Jose Gregorio and Sister Carmen Rendiles are now saints."

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Also from Venezuela is Maria Carmen Elena Rendiles Martinez, a nun born without a left arm who overcame her disability to found the Congregation of the Servants of Jesus before her death in 1977.

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Those have proved dangerous words for investors in stocks, bonds and currencies since professors Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff used them for the title of a book whose subtitle gives away the plot: “Eight centuries of financial folly.”

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