What does criado in Spanish mean?

What is the meaning of the word criado in Spanish? The article explains the full meaning, pronunciation along with bilingual examples and instructions on how to use criado in Spanish.

The word criado in Spanish means servant, grown up, rear, breed, raise, rear, bring up, breed, grow, well-bred, spoiled. To learn more, please see the details below.

Listen to pronunciation

Meaning of the word criado

servant

nombre masculino, nombre femenino (anticuado (sirviente, doméstico)

(noun: Refers to person, place, thing, quality, etc.)
Pilar tiene un criado y una criada que se encargan de las labores del hogar.
Pilar has a servant and a maid in charge of house chores.

grown up

adjetivo (hijo, hija: formado)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Ana ya tiene a todos sus hijos criados y todos son capaces de defenderse en la vida.
Ana's children are all grown up and able to hold their own in life.

rear

verbo transitivo (niños: alimentar, nutrir) (child)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Mi abuela crió a todos sus hijos con leche materna y siempre gozaron de buena salud.
My grandma reared all her children on breastmilk and they were always all healthy.

breed, raise, rear

verbo transitivo (animales: cuidar, alimentar) (animals)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
Mi vecina cría gallinas y vive de la venta de sus huevos.
ⓘEsta oración no es una traducción de la original. His family's been breeding cattle here for the past 200 years.

bring up

verbo transitivo (educar, instruir: niños) (children)

(phrasal verb, transitive, separable: Verb with adverb(s) or preposition(s), having special meaning, divisible--for example, "call off" [=cancel], "call the game off," "call off the game.")
Jesús y Cristina criaron siete hijos con amor y paciencia.
ⓘEsta oración no es una traducción de la original. My great-grandfather brought his children up like everyone else in the 19th century.

breed

verbo transitivo (causar desarrollo de algo)

(transitive verb: Verb taking a direct object--for example, "Say something." "She found the cat.")
La carne descompuesta cría moscas.
Rotten meat breeds flies.

grow

verbo pronominal (persona: desarrollarse, crecer)

(intransitive verb: Verb not taking a direct object--for example, "She jokes." "He has arrived.")
Un niño no puede criarse fuerte y sano a base de pan y agua.
Children cannot grow strong and healthy on nothing but bread and water.

well-bred

locución adjetiva (persona: educado)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Debes pedir perdón, como persona bien criada que eres.

spoiled

(maleducado, descortés)

(adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house.")
Pepito es un muchacho mal criado.
Pepito is an ill-bred boy.

Let's learn Spanish

So now that you know more about the meaning of criado in Spanish, you can learn how to use them through selected examples and how to read them. And remember to learn the related words that we suggest. Our website is constantly updating with new words and new examples so you can look up the meanings of other words you don't know in Spanish.

Do you know about Spanish

Spanish (español), also known as Castilla, is a language of the Iberian-Romance group of the Romance languages, and the 4th most common language in the world according to Some sources, while others list it as a 2nd or 3rd most common language. It is the mother tongue of about 352 million people, and is spoken by 417 million people when adding its speakers as a language. sub (estimated in 1999). Spanish and Portuguese have very similar grammar and vocabulary; The number of similar vocabulary of these two languages is up to 89%. Spanish is the primary language of 20 countries around the world. It is estimated that the total number of speakers of Spanish is between 470 and 500 million, making it the second most widely spoken language in the world by number of native speakers.