colmado

Borrowed from Spanish colmado.

colmado (plural colmados)

1. (Dominican Republic) A corner store.
   • 1997 January 19, Robert W. Boyd, “Coming to Visit”, in soc.culture.‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The beaches are beautiful but the people even more so and I think you will come away with a lot more from your visit if you venture outside the tourist districts. Make an effort to get into the poorer areas which lie on the outskirts of the big cities and spend a day at a colmado.

   • 2010, David Himmelgreen, The Global Food Crisis, page 64:

     Flexibility, fairness, and amicability with customers were extremely important qualities of a successful colmado. At least one colmado in Santa Lucia suffered significant business losses because of development of a reputation for unfairness and inflexibility. The successful long-term capturing of household income by a colmado, largely a byproduct of solid credit relations, directly impacted the colmado's ability to remain in good standing with suppliers with whom they often held debt.

From colmar +‎ -ado.

• IPA^(key): /kolˈmado/ [kolˈma.ð̞ʊ]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Hyphenation: col‧ma‧do

colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)

1. past participle of colmar

colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)

1. (of pigs) having spiky hair
2. thatched

colmado m (plural colmados)

1. (construction) thatched roof

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “colmado”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “colmado”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “colmado”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)

1. past participle of colmar

• IPA^(key): /kolˈmado/ [kolˈma.ð̞o]
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: col‧ma‧do

colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)

1. full, complete, copious

   Synonyms: abundante, copioso, repleto

colmado m (plural colmados)

1. (Spain) limited corner store
2. (Dominican Republic) local general store that is often also a social gather point

colmado (feminine colmada, masculine plural colmados, feminine plural colmadas)

1. past participle of colmar

• “colmado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024