palabra: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Sep. 7, 2014

palabra \pah-LAH-vrah\ noun 1. Spanish. a word. 2. Spanish. speech; talk. Quotes To conquer or die is no theatrical palabra, in these circumstances, but a practical truth and necessity. -- Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, 1837 Origin Palabra came to English from Spanish in the early 1600s.

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