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Bueno

Bueno

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A Spanish or Portuguese family name
  • proper noun
  • /ˈbweɪnoʊ/
translation icon : Bueno
  • By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and George Downs
  • Bueno de Mesquita
  • Gonzalez Bueno
  • Bruce Bueno

Examples

  • Please help me welcome tonight's guest, live influencer matching Bueno Mexico, Andrea.

  • I wish to thank Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Steve Chan, and Ido Oren for their comments.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Her response is typical of her famous obstinacy: "Bueno," she says, "I will die in my own bed."

    Fiction book (1992)
  • This is an art installation by Claudio Bueno and she and her homers created.

  • All three of these goals can be understood within the framework of the political survival model (Bueno de Mesquita et al. 2004).

    Academic text (2016)
  • Gonzalez Bueno indicates that the bath is prepared with seven, fourteen, or twenty-one leaves from specified plants.

    Academic text (2001)
  • "All ship's captains take wine with their meals, bueno, on Sundays at least," said Bernardo.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • At this point in the initiation, Bedia's and Gonzalez Bueno's accounts differ slightly.

    Academic text (2001)
  • Mr. Eddie Bueno is a well-known artist in our community.

  • Eddie Bueno graduated from the University of Arts last year.

Idioms

no bueno
  • Slang
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An informal way to say that something is not good or acceptable

Surface Forms

Bueno main

Etymology

Bueno is a Spanish and Portuguese family name that comes from the common word bueno, which means 'good' and comes from the Latin bonus 'good'. It began as a nickname for a kind person, so today the surname simply means 'the good one'.