dobro

From the trade name Dobro, used by the Gibson Guitar Corporation, from Dopyera or Dopjera, the name of the inventors + brothers, and also a pun on Slovak dobro (“good”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊbɹəʊ/

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dobro (plural dobros)

1. (music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator.

   Synonym: resonator guitar

   • 2007 January 21, Nate Chinen, “Dueling Banjos, Gospel Harmonies, Arabesques and Electric Eels”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The longest and most incandescent track is “Twilight Kingdom,” which includes Stuart Duncan on fiddle, Jerry Douglas on dobro and David Grier on guitar.

• boord, brood, droob

Inherited from Old Czech dobro, from Proto-Slavic *dobrъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈdobro]

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• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dobro n (relational adjective dobrý)

1. good

   Antonym: zlo

• “dobro”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “dobro”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “dobro”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2026, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “dobro”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

dobro

1. first-person singular present indicative of dobrar

From Serbo-Croatian dobar, добар, from Proto-Slavic *dobrъ (“good”).

dobro (feminine dobra, masculine plural dobros, feminine plural dobras)

1. (Balkan) good

   Synonym: bueno

Inherited from Old Polish dobro. By surface analysis, dobry +‎ -o.

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• Rhymes: -ɔbrɔ
• Syllabification: do‧bro
• Homophone: Dobro

dobro n

1. (uncountable) good, goodness (state or characteristic of being good)

   Antonym: zło

2. (countable, literary, chiefly in the plural) good (that which is produced, traded, bought, or sold)
3. (in the plural) estate (landed property owned or controlled by a government or a department of government)

dobro (comparative lepiej, superlative najlepiej)

1. (Middle Polish) synonym of dobrze

• dobro in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dobro in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dobro, from Latin dūplus. Doublet of duplo, a learned borrowing.

• dôbro (pre-reform spelling)

• Rhymes: -obɾu
• Hyphenation: do‧bro

dobro m (plural dobros)

1. double

Coeficiente	Substantivo	Resultado
1	único singular
2	dobro	dupla par dueto
3	triplo	trio trinca terceto tríade trindade
4	quádruplo	quarteto
5	quíntuplo	quinteto
6	sêxtuplo	sexteto
7	sétuplo séptuplo	septeto
8	óctuplo	octeto
9	nônuplo (Brazil) nónuplo (Portugal)	noneto novena
10	décuplo	dezena
11	undécuplo	onzena onzeno
12	duodécuplo	dúzia
100	cêntuplo	centena
muitos	múltiplo

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• Hyphenation: do‧bro

dobro

1. first-person singular present indicative of dobrar

• “dobro”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “dobro”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /dǒbro/
• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dòbro m inan (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. Name of the letter <d> in the Glagolitic alphabet.

From dȍbar.

• IPA^(key): /dǒbro/
• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dòbro n (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. good (forces or behaviours that are the opposite to bad or evil)
2. good, goods (an item of merchandise)
3. property, estate
4. well-being, welfare, sake

dòbro (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. well (in a good manner)

   Iako se trudio, nikad nije naučio dobro voziti.

   Although he tried, he never learned to drive well.

2. properly, rightly (in a proper manner)

dobro (Cyrillic spelling добро)

1. well

   Uh... pa dobro onda. ― Uh... well then.

2. all right, so be it, OK, fine

   Ne želiš da ti pomognem? Dobro, neću! ― You don't want me to help you? All right, I won't!

Borrowed from English dobro, in turn from Slovak dobro.

• IPA^(key): /dǒbro/
• Hyphenation: dob‧ro

dòbro m inan (Cyrillic spelling до̀бро)

1. dobro (acoustic guitar)

• “dobro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “dobro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “dobro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “dobro”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.bro/

From the adjective dobrý.

dobro n

1. good

dobro n

1. dobro

• “dobro”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̀ːbrɔ/

dóbro (comparative bọ̑lje or bọ̑ljše, superlative nȁjbọ̑lje or nȁjbọ̑ljše)

1. well, good

   Antonym: slabọ̑

• predóbro

• “dobro”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈdobɾo/ [ˈd̪o.β̞ɾo]
• Rhymes: -obɾo
• Syllabification: do‧bro

dobro m (plural dobros)

1. dobro

• “dobro”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025