comodín
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]comodín (feminine comodina, masculine plural comodines, feminine plural comodinas)
- general purpose; generic; wild card; catch-all
- 2017 September, “Espino , héroe para unos pero un vago para otros”, in Frontera.info[1]:
- Esa directiva comodina que tanto criticó al gobierno estatal anterior, por la construcción del estadio en un lugar inadecuado, y que nunca se opuso al nombre de Nuevo Sonora.
- That wild card directive that so criticized the previous state government for the construction of the stadium in an inappropriate place, and that never opposed the name of Nuevo Sonora.
Noun
[edit]comodín m (plural comodines)
- joker
- (card games) joker
- (card games) wild card, wildcard
- dummy, placeholder
- lifeline
- En el programa de juego "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", los concursantes pueden recibir hasta tres comodines.
- In the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?", the contestants can receive up to three lifelines.
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]Playing cards in Spanish · cartas (layout · text) | ||||||
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as | dos | tres | cuatro | cinco | seis | siete |
ocho | nueve | diez | sota | reina | rey | comodín |
Further reading
[edit]- “comodín”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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