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mat·a·dor    Audio Help   [mat-uh-dawr] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.the principal bullfighter in a bullfight who passes the bull with a muleta and then, in many countries, kills it with a sword thrust; a torero.
2.one of the principal cards in skat and certain other games.
3.(initial capital letter) a jet-powered U.S. surface-to-surface missile.

[Origin: 1665–75; < Sp, equiv. to mata(r) to kill (perh. < VL *mattāre, presumed deriv. of LL mattus soft, weak; cf. matte1) +-dor -tor]
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mat·a·dor    Audio Help   (māt'ə-dôr')  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A bullfighter who performs the final passes and kills the bull.
  2. Games One of the highest trumps in certain card games.


[Spanish, from matar, to kill, possibly from Vulgar Latin *mattāre, to beat senseless, perhaps from Latin mattus, stupefied; see mat2.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
matador 
1674, from Sp. matador, lit. "killer," from matar "to kill or wound," probably from Arabic mata "he died," from Persian (see second element in checkmate).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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matador

noun
the principal bullfighter who is appointed to make the final passes and kill the bull 

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
matador [ˈmӕtədoː] noun
the man who kills the bull in a bullfight
Arabic: مُصارِع الثيران
Chinese (Simplified): 斗牛士
Chinese (Traditional): 鬥牛士
Czech: matador
Danish: matador
Dutch: matador
Estonian: matadoor
Finnish: matadori
French: matador
German: der Matador
Greek: ταυρομάχος
Hungarian: matador
Icelandic: nautabani
Indonesian: matador
Italian: matador, torero
Japanese: 闘牛士
Korean: 투우사
Latvian: matadors
Lithuanian: matadoras
Norwegian: matador, tyrefekter
Polish: matador
Portuguese (Brazil): toureiro, matador
Portuguese (Portugal): toureiro
Romanian: matador
Russian: матадор
Slovak: matador
Slovenian: bikoborec
Spanish: matador, torero
Swedish: matador
Turkish: matador
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Matador, TX (town, FIPS 47004) Location: 34.01507 N, 100.82124 W
Population (1990): 790 (458 housing units)
Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 79244

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Matador

Mat"a*dor\, n. 1. [Skat] The jack of clubs, or any other trump held in sequence with it, whether by the player or by his adversaries.

2. A certain game of dominoes in which four dominoes (the 4-3, 5-2, 6-1, and double blank), called matadors, may be played at any time in any way.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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