Meanings
plural corridas
- bullfightinga bullfight
[…]El Juli, a young and already much-admired torero, takes risk after risk until he is gored, drops to the sand and is helped up by Enrique Ponce Martinez - Spain 's leading matador and his partner for the afternoon's corrida.
2009 January 31, AL Kennedy, “Deaths in the afternoon”, in The Guardian
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna Spanish or Portuguese or Latin American spectacle; a matador baits and (usually) kills a bull in an arena before many spectators
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥séti
- Proto-Italic*korsō
- Latincurrere
- Old Spanishcorrer
- Spanishcorrer
- Spanishcorrida
- Englishcorrida
Borrowed from Spanish corrida.
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Cite this entry
corrida. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corrida
“corrida.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corrida. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “corrida,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corrida.
Source: corrida on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.