Definition of hombrenext
as in guy
an adult male human being two tough-looking hombres sauntered into the bar and ordered … lemonade

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Recent Examples of hombre Those folks at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio were only dangling 200 feet above terra firma for ten minutes, but for this hombre, that’s ten minutes too many. Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 May 2026 Only 46% of us hombres are up to-date, compared with 60% of white men, 61% of Puerto Ricans and 49% of Central and South Americans, according to the American Cancer Society. Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026 As the leader of a ragtag group of hombres out to defend a helpless community from a violent sociopath (Peter Sarsgaard), Denzel shoots for the strong, silent type but winds up somewhere between dull and bored. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025 Sheridan saw it in 1883, when Marshal Jim Courtright turned from amiable lawman to stone killer in a barroom full of bad hombres. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for hombre
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Noun
  • This guy seemed all right, so why not meet up with him just to try it out?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Sondheim — those guys wrote proper musicals.
    Victor Garber, Vulture, 17 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • An adjoining library — once a gentlemen’s smoking room — retains an original oil-light fixture and the atmosphere of an after-dinner gathering place.
    David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Hafidh Ameir Hassan became Tanzania’s first gentleman in 2021, when his wife took office as the country's first female president following the death of President John Magufuli.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The males feed under a narrow, white, waxy coating and mate with females in spring.
    Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The fifth was 23-year-old Manny Taboada — a 6-foot-2, 200-pound male.
    Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 19 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • This is a dude that’s driven every car in the world, has respect all over the world.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • And, yet, we’re supposed to take from it that Newsom isn’t just another stuffy old white dude in a suit.
    Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • For the first few days, they were held in a room crammed with up to 80 men, with just a handful of open toilets, in frigid conditions and with only a thin towel to sleep under, before being moved to two-person cells.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has some new digs—an Airstream trailer in Memphis, parked just steps from xAI’s most ambitious project yet.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2026

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“Hombre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hombre. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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