Example sentences for: diccionario

How can you use “diccionario” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 3 of Joan Corominas and José A. Pascual's Diccionario critico etimológico castellano e hispánico (Madrid, Gredos, 1980).

  • According to the Diccionario de Mejicanismos (Dictionary of Mexicanisms), barbacoa is “carne asada en un hoyo que se abre en tierra, y se calienta como los hornos” (grilled meat cooked in a hole in the ground heated like an oven).

  • The Diccionario de Mejicanismos defines rascuache as pobre, “a miserable person,” poor, lowly, wretched.

  • Santamaria’s Diccionario de Mejicanismos’ definition for pichilingo is chiquito, muchachito, and niño pequeño, meaning “very small” and “little child.”

  • He also pre-sents the definition from the Diccionario General de Americanismos, stating that pachuca is a five-card poker hand in which all the cards are of different suits, or in other words, a poker hand with no value, a losing hand.


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