Spanish | English |
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a culo pelado adjective {m} | bareassadjective |
a dos velas adjective | broke(lacking money; bankrupt) |
a grito pelado preposition | at the top of one's voicepreposition |
a la luz de la vela phrase | all cats are grey in the dark(proverb) |
a pies pelados adjective {m} | barefoot(wearing nothing on the feet) |
a toda vela adverb | full sailadverb |
a velas llenas adverb | full sailadverb |
a velas tendidas adverb | full sailadverb |
a vuelapluma adjective | offhand(without planning or thinking ahead) |
a vuelapluma adverb | on the fly((idiomatic) spontaneously or extemporaneously) |
Abelardo proper noun | Abelard(male given name) |
abrelatas noun {m} | can opener(device used to open tin cans) |
abuela noun | grandma [grandmas](grandmother (informal)) |
abuela noun {f} | grandmother [grandmothers](mother of someone's parent) grandparent [grandparents](parent of one's parent) |
abuela materna noun {f} | maternal grandmother [maternal grandmothers](The mother of one's mother) |
abuela paterna noun {f} | paternal grandmother(one's father's mother) |
abuela política noun | grandmother-in-law(grandmother of one's spouse) |
abuelastra noun {f} | stepgrandmother(stepmother of one's parent and wife of one's grandfather) |
abuelastro noun {m} | stepgrandfather(stepfather of one's parent and husband of one's grandmother, and not one's biological grandfather) |
acabársele la candela preposition | on one's last legs(about to die) |
acaramelado adjective | lovey-doveyadjective |
acaramelar verb | caramelize [caramelized, caramelizing, caramelizes](brown sugar) |
acuarela noun {f} | aquarelle(painting, see also: watercolour) watercolour [watercolours](pigment) |
acuartelado adjective | quarterly(divided into four parts crosswise) |
acuartelamiento verb {m} | quarters(housing, barracks) |
acuartelar verb | billet [billeted, billeting, billets](to lodge soldiers, or guests, in a private house) |
Adela proper noun {f} | Adela(female given name) |
Adelaida proper noun {f} | Adelaide(female given name) |
adelantadamente adverb | beforehand(at an earlier time) |
adelantado adjective | rash(acting too quickly without considering the consequences and risks, see also: hasty) |
adelantado a su época preposition | ahead of one's time(in advance of commonly accepted ideas) |
adelantado de su época preposition {m} | above the curvepreposition |
adelantar verb | hasten [hastened, hastening, hastens](to cause a scheduled event to happen earlier) move forward(to make progress) overhaul [overhauled, overhauling, overhauls](to pass, overtake, or travel past) overtake [overtook, overtaken, overtaking, overtakes](to pass a more slowly moving object) predate [predated, predating, predates](move a date, event) |
adelantar acontecimientos verb | get ahead of oneself(to focus excessively on prospective future events) |