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Pronunciation: [mˈatɐdˌɔːz] (IPA)

Matadors, the skilled bullfighters of Spain, are known for their daring and fearless approach to the dangerous sport. However, there are many words that can be used as synonyms for the term 'matadors', such as toreros, picadors, and banderilleros. Toreros, in particular, are the matadors who actually face and fight the bull in the ring during a bullfight, while picadors are the ones who ride horses and weaken the bull before the torero takes over. Banderilleros are responsible for sticking colorful barbed sticks into the bull's shoulders to further weaken it. These synonyms show the various roles that make up the exciting spectacle of bullfighting.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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The matadors are safe only because the bull is insane from rage.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon
Here is another Spanish store, conspicuous for its painted tambourines with pendent webs of red and yellow worsted, and for its spreading fans, color-dashed with exciting pictures of bull-fights and spangled matadors.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
They advance in a glittering line: first the marshals of the day, then the picadors on horseback, then the matadors on foot surrounded each by his quadrille of chulos.
"Castilian Days"
John Hay

Famous quotes with Matadors

  • A bullfighter can never see the work of art that he is making. He has no chance to correct it as a painter or writer has. He cannot hear it as a musician can. He can only feel it and hear the crowd's reaction to it. When he feels it and knows that it is great it takes hold of him so that nothing else in the world matters. All the time that he is making his work of art he knows that he must keep within the limits of his skill and his knowledge of the animal. Those matadors are called cold who visibly show that they are thinking of this. Antonio was not cold and the public belonged to him now. He looked up at them and let them know, modestly but not humbly, that he knew it and as he circled the ring with the ear in his hand he looked at the different segments of Bilbao, a city that he loved, as they stood up as he passed and was happy that he owned them.
    Ernest Hemingway

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