garbo
Spanish, noun
garbo is spelled G-A-R-B-O (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish, the 48,253rd most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Garbo is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “grace” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of garbar. With an accent, garbó is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of garbar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Gracia, elegancia buena disposición del cuerpo, especialmente el modo de andar o actuar”.
What does garbo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinegrace
- 2
masculinestyle
verb
- 1
first-person singular present indicative of garbar
verb
- 1
third-person singular preterite indicative of garbar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Gracia, elegancia buena disposición del cuerpo, especialmente el modo de andar o actuar. 2. Valentía, desprendimiento, generosidad.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of garbo
- garbos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to garbo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is garbo in Spanish?
garbo appears about once in every 2 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).