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Pedro

nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈpɛdɹəʊ//
  • United Kingdom//peɪdɹəʊ//
  • United States//ˈpeɪdɹoʊ//
  • United States//ˈpɛdɹoʊ//

An American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.

noun

  1. 1

    An American trick-taking card game of the all fours family.

  2. 2

    The five of trumps in certain card games.

  3. 3

    The standard callsign for an aircraft participating in CSAR (“combat search and rescue”), typically a helicopter.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish and Portuguese Pedro, from Latin Petrus, from Ancient Greek Πέτρος (Pétros), from πέτρος (pétros, “stone, rock”). Doublet of Peter, Piers, Pietro, and Boutros.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A male given name from Spanish or Portuguese, equivalent to English Peter.

Forms

plural
Pedros, Pedroes
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).