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mat·a·dor

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–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.

A bullfighter who performs the final passes and kills the bull.
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).

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

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

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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.

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