bullfight means A public spectacle, in Spain and some other Latin countries, in which a person baits and often kills a bull. It carries an Arena rating of 1245, earned across 8 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, bullfight ranks #3,024 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words, #3,738 of 17,127 for Words That Escaped Their Books, #3,948 of 17,131 for Scariest Words, #4,255 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words.
Why “bullfight” is a great word
A public spectacle, especially in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America, in which a person baits and often kills a bull. From bull (the animal) + fight (a combat or contest), first attested in English in 1753. Unlike corrida, which evokes the formal event, its sequence and sacred ceremony, or tauromachy, which elevates the practice to an archaic art, bullfight is the raw, named thing itself. It is the specific collision of embroidered silk and desperate horn, the percussive gasp of a crowd as horn meets air, and the singular, suspended silence between a breath drawn and a sword thrust—a ritual where life, death, and aesthetics are forced into a single, brutal equation.
Etymology
From bull + fight.
noun
- A public spectacle, in Spain and some other Latin countries, in which a person baits and often kills a bull.
Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).
Words closest in meaning
By meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.