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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DUENDE

Spanish, spirit.
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PRONUNCIATION OF DUENDE

duende  [duːˈɛndeɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DUENDE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Duende is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DUENDE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of duende in the English dictionary

The definition of duende in the dictionary is inspiration or passion, esp associated with flamenco.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DUENDE


all-day
ˈɔːlˌdeɪ
bidet
ˈbiːdeɪ
birthday
ˈbɜːθˌdeɪ
day
deɪ
dey
deɪ
doomsday
ˈduːmzˌdeɪ
everyday
ˈɛvrɪˌdeɪ
faraday
ˈfærəˌdeɪ
holiday
ˈhɒlɪˌdeɪ
intraday
ˈɪntrədeɪ
Mande
ˈmɑːndeɪ
Mayday
ˈmeɪˌdeɪ
midday
ˈmɪdˈdeɪ
one-day
ˈwʌnˌdeɪ
payday
ˈpeɪˌdeɪ
same-day
ˈseɪmˌdeɪ
someday
ˈsʌmˌdeɪ
today
təˈdeɪ
weekday
ˈwiːkˌdeɪ
weekdays
ˈwiːkdeɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DUENDE

duel
dueler
duelist
duelled
dueller
duelling
duelling pistol
duellist
duello
duelsome
dueness
duenna
duennaship
Duero
dues
duet
duetted
duetting
duettino
duettist

WORDS THAT END LIKE DUENDE

allemande
Allende
amende
blende
blonde
Campo Grande
Gironde
Hollande
hornblende
lande
monde
Oostende
Ostende
pitchblende
Rio Grande
ronde
seconde
sonde
tout le monde
zinc blende

Synonyms and antonyms of duende in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «duende» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DUENDE

Find out the translation of duende to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of duende from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «duende» in English.

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魔力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

duende
570 millions of speakers

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duende
510 millions of speakers

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Duende
380 millions of speakers
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duende
280 millions of speakers

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дуэнде
278 millions of speakers

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duende
270 millions of speakers

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duende
260 millions of speakers

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duende
220 millions of speakers

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Duende
190 millions of speakers

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Duende
180 millions of speakers

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妖精
130 millions of speakers

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duende
85 millions of speakers

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Duende
85 millions of speakers
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Duende
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

duende
75 millions of speakers

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Duende
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

duende
70 millions of speakers

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duende
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Duende
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дуенде
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Duende
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

duende
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

Duende
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

duende
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

duende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of duende

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DUENDE»

The term «duende» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.422 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DUENDE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about duende

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DUENDE»

Discover the use of duende in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to duende and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Duende: A Journey In Search Of Flamenco
Duende is an account of his years spent in Spain feeding his obsessive interest in flamenco: he subjects himself to the tyranny of his guitar teacher, practising for hours on end until his fingers bleed; he becomes involved in a passionate ...
Jason Webster, 2010
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Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: L-Z
The body is important in duende; Lorca quotes an unnamed virtuosic guitarist describing duende as climbing up from the soles of the feet. Resonating in the body, the singing comes from the chest and belly, not the throat. Duende's black ...
David A. Leeming, Kathryn Madden, Stanton Marlan, 2010
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Duende: Odes of Intimacy and Desire for the Shadow ...
Introduction richness we have painted in our description of the Shadow/Duende and the bag of stuff that has been stuffed. ••• Duende is a trickster. Duende is the acknowledgement of the downward pull at mid-life. Duende is the assent to ...
N. Thomas Johnson-Medland, 2013
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Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections
Duende is a word like that, but since Spain is not a country given to acerb restraint, the connotation is different. The dictionary of the Real Academia de la Lengua (language) defines it as 'mysterious and ineffable charm.' A night club has ...
James Albert Michener, 1968
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The Poetics of Apocalypse: Federico García Lorca's Poet in ...
3 Lorca develops an extraordinary antitheoretical theory about negation in his lecture "Play and Theory of the Duende,"4 whose title conjoins theory and play in order to address both artistic technique and "true" inspiration. In under twenty ...
Martha Nandorfy, 2003
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The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca
He called it duende, the demonic inspiration, something akin to what Nietzsche described as the Dionysian urge. The idea of the duende, and the mystery that surrounds it, came to signify for Lorca the essence of what he hoped to be guided  ...
Federico García Lorca, Francisco García Lorca, Donald Merriam Allen, 2005
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EL ERMITAÑO y el DUENDE
El polvo de oro toma forma y el Duende aparece. “Buen día a usted, Sr. Marks. Veo que todavía estás en una sola pieza”, dice el Duende. “Y buen día a usted, Sr. O'Brien. Sí, Sr. O'Brien, estoy todavía en una pieza”, replica el ermitaño, ...
Antonio Angleró, 2007
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Duende Meadow
personnel, who numbered a precious forty-five, helped ensure that at least for the time being Duende Meadow could sustain itself. Only later—cen- turies in fact— did they decide to awaken one of the sleeping soldiers or technicians in the ...
Paul Cook, 2011
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The Tragic Myth: Lorca and Cante Jondo
THE THEORY OF DUENDE Sometime after 1928, Lorca delivered a lecture that may contain his most inspired prose. "Teoria y juego del duende" (I: 1067-79) is essential for understanding his poetics and his attitude toward the music of his ...
Edward F. Stanton
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Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an ...
The Duende Lorca's poetry of the late 1920s /early 1930s fuses Surrealist concerns with that sense of native culture (Andalusian and Gypsy), a true Paideuma (see above, p. 36), which permeates this essay. "Characteristically," writes Arturo ...
Jerome Rothenberg, Diane Rothenberg, 1983

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DUENDE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term duende is used in the context of the following news items.
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New works at the Proms that some would rather dernière than …
Francesconi has found inspiration in what Lorca called duende – a state of excitement that 'surges up inside, from the soles of the feet'. «Spectator.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Rehearsals for Spanish-Language SPEED-THE-PLOW Begin Today …
Other directing credits include Amigo Duende, The Musical (music and lyrics by Joshua Henry, book by Henry, Salgado andHeather Hogan), ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
3
Federico García Lorca, Back in the New York Groove
We're assuming that's Lorca's duende peeking out from the C in City Rooms, and a look at the ol' Garcia Lorca in New York map shows why the ... «Bedford + Bowery, Jul 15»
4
Dance review: The articulate passion of Soledad Barrio and Noche …
The Spanish colloquialism tener duende means to have a certain magic; to have soul. But these are just words doing their best to capture what ... «The Independent Weekly, Jul 15»
5
Shake off the winter blues at the Bello music festival
... band The Putbacks, exotic rhythms from Bobby Singh's internationally acclaimed trio Rasa Duende and red hot flamenco from Arte Kanela. «Coffs Coast Advocate, Jun 15»
6
Oakland's first wine festival
... Oakland restaurants, including Commis, Duende, Brown Sugar Kitchen, A16 Rockridge and Miss Ollie's. Attend winemaker panels, seminars, ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jun 15»
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Paco Pena, Sadler's Wells, review: 'magnificent and inspired'
Duende”, as the language of flamenco describes it – or “soul”, as we might say – was once analysed by Lorca: “It is not a question of ability, but ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
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Carmen, Nevill Holt Opera, review: 'hard to take seriously'
... knowing vamp to have much allure - there was no sense of the fatalistic otherness and duende that sets this wild gypsy enchantress apart. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
9
Neil Goldberg introduces the local cast of Broward centennial's 'WE'
Cirque Dreams founder Neil Goldberg has been tapped to create WE, the theatrical spectacle that will be part of Duende, the culminating ... «Miami Herald, Jun 15»
10
Nervous reunion with old friend Duende
So it was with some trepidation that we headed to Duende. A couple of years ago it was our go-to place. We spent many weekends filling up on ... «Perth Now, Jun 15»

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