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rumbo

course

noun RROOM-boh Rare

Also means

heading

Usage Note

Rumbo comes from navigation — it is the compass bearing or course of a vessel — and has extended broadly to mean direction or trajectory in life or affairs: perder el rumbo ('to lose one's way'), con rumbo a ('heading to/toward').

Examples

"El barco puso rumbo al sur."

Natural Translation

The ship set course for the south.

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