caballero
Americannoun
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a Spanish gentleman.
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Southwestern U.S.
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a horseman.
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a woman's escort or admirer; cavalier.
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noun
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a Spanish gentleman
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a southwestern US word for horseman
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of caballero
First recorded in 1740–50; from Spanish: “horseman, knight, gentleman,” from Late Latin caballārius groom; see origin at cavalier
Example Sentences
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A butcher’s daughter named Flaca, with her male cologne and her heartbreaking caballero swagger, cooks and cares for her friends.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2019
That way, she said, “the story of the handsome, dashing caballero figure will continue to be relevant.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2016
Always impeccably dressed, in a blazer complete with a pocket square and suspenders, Cordova is as dapper as he is gentlemanly, an authentic caballero of the old school.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2015
Alarcon's hero is an impossibly noble, handsome and athletic young caballero named Manuel who is thwarted in his desire to marry Soledad, the daughter of the town moneylender.
From Time Magazine Archive
I know he’s talking to Papi, who says that after the way Washburn helped with Lucinda, he trusts ese caballero with his life.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
His Zorro dedicates himself to the equitable treatment of every citizen and rouses his fellow caballeros to practice a democratic form of noblesse oblige.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2020
Ramírez was a Mexican migrant who spent much of his life in California state mental hospitals and created curious, pattern-filled drawings of trains and caballeros.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2017
What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now I could refer to your editors as "bowlegged waddies," "brocklefaced bozos," "drugstore caballeros" or "maverick-roping rustlers," and perhaps accomplish nothing but a feeling of resentment on their part.
From Time Magazine Archive
They became horsemen, caballeros, men whose daily life was wrapped up in the ritual of horsemanship.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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