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say it: boh-LER-oh
bolero is a noun meaning "music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance". It is pronounced /boʊˈlɛɹoʊ/ — boh-LER-oh. It carries 3 recorded senses.
music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance
a short jacket; worn mostly by women
a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bolero come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.