name
Meaning 1
A city in Portugal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
faro
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɛəɹəʊ/
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rhymes with -ɛəɹəʊ
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homophone: pharaoh
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CMU ARPABET: F EH1 R OW0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A municipality of Pará, Brazil.
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name
Meaning 3
A department of the North Region, Cameroon.
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name
Meaning 4
A town in central Yukon, Canada.
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name
Meaning 5
An unincorporated community in Twelvemile Township, Madison County, Missouri, United States.
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name
Meaning 6
An unincorporated community in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States.
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noun
Meaning 7
A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: farobank, pharaoh
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noun
Meaning 8
a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: card game, cards
History
Etymology
From Portuguese Faro, from Old Galician-Portuguese Faaron.
Presumably an alteration of pharaoh, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 法魯 /法鲁 (Fǎlǔ) — city in Portugal
- German: Faro — city in Portugal
- Hindi: फ़ारो (fāro) — city in Portugal
- Old Galician-Portuguese: Faaron — city in Portugal
- Portuguese: Faro — city in Portugal
- Thai: ฟารู (faa-ruu) — city in Portugal
- Catalan: faraó — banking card game
- Esperanto: faraono — banking card game
- French: pharaon — banking card game
- German: Pharo — banking card game
- Hungarian: fáraó — banking card game
- Ido: faraono — banking card game
- Italian: faraone — banking card game
- Portuguese: faraó — banking card game
- Russian: фарао́н (faraón) — banking card game