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Torres

proper nouncommon in dialogue

A topographic surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Towers of Spanish and Portuguese origin.

proper noun

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    A topographic surname from the Romance languages, equivalent to English Towers of Spanish and Portuguese origin.

    Ryan Kohnke attended the parade with his two daughters to see his 11-year-old niece Jessalyn Torres dance. But Kohnke compared what he saw to his days of combat service in Iraq, calling it “a war zone.”

Etymology

From Romance Torres (Portuguese Torres and Spanish Torres); from torres ("towers"; Portuguese torres and Spanish torres); indicating someone who lived in or near a tower. From Latin turris.

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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).