cuarentena
sustantivo:femenino
1 (número) about forty; forty-odd
ambos rondan la cuarentena they're both around forty (years old); una cuarentena de some forty; forty or so
cuarentena
∗cuarentena
feminine noun
1quarantine (por epidemia)
- poner en cuarentena -> to (put in) quarantine; (enfermos) to put on hold (noticia)
2forty (cuarenta unidades)
- andará por la cuarentena -> he must be about forty
- una cuarentena de… -> about forty…; (unos cuarenta) forty… (cuarenta)
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cuarentena [coo-ah-ren-tay’-nah]
noun
1Space of forty days, months, or years; the fortieth part. (f)
2Lent, the forty days of fast prescribed by the Church. (f)
3Suspension of assent to anything. (Metaphorical) (f)
4The number 40 in general. (f)
5Quarantine, the time when a ship, suspected of infection, is obliged to abstain from intercourse with the inhabitants of a country. (Nautical) (f)
- Hacer cuarentena -> (Naut.) To perform quarantine
- cuarentón ->
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