PORTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Porto mean? 

• PORTO (noun)
  The noun PORTO has 1 sense:

1. port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine

  Familiarity information: PORTO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Oporto; Porto

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Holonyms ("Porto" is a part of...):

Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))

 Context examples 

In the cities of the northern half of the state, including Porto Alegre, smoke was not noticed due to the large number of clouds.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

Deforestation rates from other cities in southern Bahia considered, like Porto Seguro and Ilhéus, some 30% of the biome was destroyed during the period in the region.

(Brazilian Atlantic Forest deforestation up nearly 60% in a year, Agência Brasil)

Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France, David Armstrong and colleagues at the University of Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group independently detected the planet in the first instance, alongside researchers at the Universidade do Porto.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)