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# bullfight

«bullfight» in Mova's school dictionary: **A public show, mainly in Spain, Portugal, southern France…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a bullfight, bullfights)

### meaning for a pupil

A public show, mainly in Spain, Portugal, southern France and parts of Latin America, in which people fight a bull in a ring; in most bullfights the bull is killed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullfight/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In culture and ethics lessons, bullfighting is a tradition that many people see as cruel to animals; it is banned in some places and many people protest against it. Related: bullfighter, matador, bullring.

### examples

- A bullfight takes place in a ring called a bullring. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullfight/#x1)
- Many people think bullfights are cruel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullfight/#x2)
- The matador waved a red cape at the bull in the bullfight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullfight/#x3)
- Some towns have banned bullfights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullfight/#x4)
- We learnt about the debate over bullfights in Spain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullfight/#x5)

### note

One word. Countable: bullfights. Myth: bulls are not angered by the red colour; they react to the cape's movement, because bulls cannot see red well.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bullfight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bullfight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.