bullfight

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bull·fight /ˈbʊlfaɪt/ noun [countable]  DSOa type of entertainment popular in Spain, in which a person fights and kills a bull 斗牛 →4  See picture of 见图 bullfight —bullfighter noun [countable] —bullfighting noun [uncountable]

Examples from the Corpus

bullfight• Do not attend a bullfight unless you are prepared to see blood, often great quantities of it.• Then for a while I had dawdled across the street, where I watched part of a bullfight.• We're silently praying for the moment we can plead sunburn and hide all out mottled bits under the outsize bullfight T-shirt.• Ernest Hemingway thought the bullfight dramatized this truth.

bull·fight nounChineseSyllable  

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bullfight
bull‧fight /ˈbʊlfaɪt/ noun [countable]
a type of entertainment popular in Spain, in which a person fights and kills a bull
—bullfighter noun [countable]
—bullfighting noun [uncountable]

bull·fightBrE /ˈbʊlfaɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʊlfaɪt/ 🔊 nouna traditional public entertainment, popular especially in Spain, in which bulls are fought and usually killed （尤指盛行于西班牙的）斗牛表演▸ bull·fight·er BrE /ˈbʊlfaɪtə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʊlfaɪtər/ 🔊 noun▸ bull·fight·ing BrE /ˈbʊlfaɪtɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˈbʊlfaɪtɪŋ/ 🔊 noun [uncountable]  ➡  see also matador