figura

figura
feminine noun
1. figure (objeto, de persona); shape (forma)
  • una figura en la oscuridad -> a shadowy form
  • figura geométrica -> geometrical figure o shape
  • figura paterna -> father figure
  • figura de porcelana -> china o porcelain figure
2. (well-known) figure (personaje destacado)
  • figuras del mundo del deporte -> well-known figures from the sporting world
3. picture card, face card (en naipes)
4. (linguistics)
  • figura retórica -> figure of speech
5. (law)
  • figura jurídica -> legal concept
masculine or feminine noun
6. (informal)
  • es un figura -> he's really something (peninsular Spanish)

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figura [fe-goo'-rah]
noun
1. Figure, the form of anything. (f)
  • De figura entera -> full-length
2. The shape, the particular external appearance of a thing (forma). (f)
3. Face, mien, countenance. (f)
4. Figure, statue, image, anything formed in resemblance of something else. (f)
5. (Law.) Form, mode. (f)
6. 1. (Music) (f)
7. Figure, any deviation from the rules of analogy or syntax. (Grammer) (f)
8. Figure, a space included in certain lines. (Geometry) (f)
9. Figure, any mode of speaking in which words are distorted from their literal and primitive sense (personaje). (Rhetoric) (f)
  • Natural or genio y figura hasta la sepultura -> (Prov.) what is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh
10. Figure (baile, patinaje). (f)
11. Marionette (títere). (f)
12. Picture card (naipes). (f)
noun
13. A foolish person assuming an air of importance and dignity. (m)
  • Ser un figura -> to be a big name
noun
14. Person of a mean or ridiculous appearance. (m)
noun, plural
15. In games of cards, the king, queen, and knave. (f)
A musical note; 2. motive, theme, subject.

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