Pedro in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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descontando a Pedro

apart from Pedro

descontando a Pedro

aside from Pedro

descontando a Pedro

excep. Pedro

descontando a Pedro

not counting o not including Pedro

Conquistadores

The collective term for the succession of explorers, soldiers and adventurers who, from the sixteenth century onward led the settlement and exploitation of Spain's Latin American colonies. Among the best known are Hernán Cortés (Mexico), Hernando de Soto (Florida, Nicaragua), the Pizarro brothers (Panama, Peru, Ecuador), Diego de Almagro (Peru, Chile) and Pedro de Valdivia (Chile).

la movida madrileña

An expression referring to the Madrid social and cultural scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the people involved in it. It was a youth phenomenon based around night spots in the city, such as the now defunct club Rock-Ola. One of the leading lights of the movida was the movie director Pedro Almodóvar.

Generación del 27

The name applied to the loose grouping of writers who became prominent in Spain in the late 1920s, 1927 being the third centennial of the death of the Golden Age poet Luis de Góngora. The best known among them are Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Gerardo Diego, Pedro Salinas, Dámaso Alonso, Jorge Guillén, Manuel Altolaguirre. Among the influences some or all of them shared were traditional poetic and musical forms, folk verse, flamenco, the cinema, surrealism. Many of them were politically active.

jerez

Sherry is produced in an area of chalky soil known as albariza lying between the towns of Puerto de Santa María, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, and Jerez de la Frontera in Cádiz province. It is from Jerez that sherry takes its English name. Sherries, made from grape varieties including Palomino and Pedro Ximénez, are drunk worldwide as an aperitif, and in Spain as an accompaniment to tapas. The styles of jerez vary from the pale fino and manzanilla to the darker aromatic oloroso and amontillado. See also solera

Aztecas

A náhuatl-speaking people of Central America who in the fourteenth century established a brilliant but tyrannical civilization in central and southern Mexico. The capital was Tenochtitlán, built on reclaimed marshland which became Mexico City. Renowned for their jewelry, the Aztecs were also skilled architects and used a writing system based on pictographs and hieroglyphs. The Aztec calendar followed a 52-year astronomical cycle. They worshipped the plumed serpent Quetzalcóatl and the war-god Huitzilopochtli, whom their priests appeased by human sacrifice. The Aztec empire collapsed in 1521 after defeat by the Spanish under Hernán Cortés and Pedro de Alvarado.

¡hijo, por Dios! (hablándole a un adulto)

for heaven's sake, Pedro (o Luis etc.)!

su padre se llama Pedro

his father is called Pedro

su padre se llama Pedro

his father's name is Pedro

¿usted es Pedro Lecue? — el mismo

are you Pedro Lecue? — I am indeed o that's right

¿usted es Pedro Lecue? — el mismo

are you Pedro Lecue? — the very same hum

llévale esto a Pedro de mi parte

take Pedro this from me

Pedro in the PONS Dictionary

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a Pedro le gusta mucho nadar, ¿a que sí, Pedro?

Pedro likes swimming a lot; don't you, Pedro?

Pedro está con la soga al cuello fig

Pedro has his back to the wall

hay que ver lo tranquilo que es Pedro

Pedro is such a quiet fellow

Pedro es muy doble

Pedro is very two-faced

Pedro Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

a Pedro le gusta mucho nadar, ¿a que sí, Pedro?

Pedro likes swimming a lot; don't you, Pedro?

hay que ver lo tranquilo que es Pedro

Pedro is such a quiet fellow

Pedro está con la soga al cuello fig

Pedro has his back to the wall