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GAUCHO
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gaucho mean?
• GAUCHO (noun)
The noun GAUCHO has 1 sense:
1. a cowboy of the South American pampas
Familiarity information: GAUCHO used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cowboy of the South American pampas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("gaucho" is a kind of...):
cattleman; cowboy; cowhand; cowherd; cowman; cowpoke; cowpuncher; puncher (a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback)
Context examples
Theirs was the spirit which upheld Darwin among the gauchos of the Argentine or Wallace among the head-hunters of Malaya.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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