Spanish word
tío
/ˈtio/
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- Part of speech
- noun
- Gender
- masculine
- Level
- A1
- Frequency
- No. 1,293 in the course corpus
- Taught in
- Latin America, Spain
Meanings
- uncle
- uncle (the brother, brother-in-law, or male cousin or cousin-in-law of either parent)
- unknown or any male person, dude, guySpain, colloquial
- friend, mate, pal, man, broSpain, colloquial
- mister (title conferred on an adult male)
- bloke((Britain, informal) fellow, man)
- bro(used to address a male)
- buster(guy, friend)
- cat(guy, fellow)
- dude(colloquial: man)Spain
- fella(used as a term of address for a male person)slang
- guy(male, man)Spain
- maternal uncle(brother of one's mother)
- mush(slang: form of address to a man)Spain
- paternal uncle(brother of one's father)
Source: Tonada course · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0 and GFDL)