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tratado

treaty

noun trah-TAH-doh Less Common
People & Society Politics

Also means

treatise

Usage Note

Tratado can be a diplomatic agreement between states (Tratado de Roma) or a scholarly written work on a subject (un tratado de filosofía). Context distinguishes the two senses. It is also the past participle of tratar ('to treat'), so bien tratado means 'well treated'. The plural is regular: tratados.

Examples

"Los países firmaron un tratado de paz."

Natural Translation

The countries signed a peace treaty.

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