PORTUGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Portugal mean? 

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

1. 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)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTUGAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Portugal; Portuguese Republic

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Portugal"):

Tagus; Tagus River (a European river; flows into the North Atlantic)

Acores; Azores (islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal)

Madeira Islands; Madeiras (a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal)

Braga (an ancient city in northern Portugal)

capital of Portugal; Lisboa; Lisbon (capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic)

Oporto; Porto (port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine)

Setubal (a port city on the Atlantic coast of Portugal to the southeast of Lisbon)

Lusitania (ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain)

Meronyms (members of "Portugal"):

Portuguese (a native or inhabitant of Portugal)

Domain member region:

Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)

duenna (a woman chaperon)

Grand Inquisitor (director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal))

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

Iberia; Iberian Peninsula (a peninsula in southwestern Europe)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Portugal" is a member of...):

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

 Context examples 

A schooner, from Spain or Portugal, laden with fruit and wine.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A species of mouse in the Muridae family found in northern Africa, Portugal, Spain, and France.

(Mus spretus, NCI Thesaurus)

This result was obtained from the very first science observations done with ESPRESSO, in September 2018, by the scientific consortium who built the instrument: a team from Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and ESO.

(ESO Telescope Observes Exoplanet Where It Rains Iron, ESO)

In fact, we see the exact opposite in countries like Ireland, Cyprus, Portugal and Iceland.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)

Researchers at Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) João Lobo Antunes, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, have found that manipulating a single RNA molecule is enough to reverse cellular ageing.

(Scientists Discover Molecule that Could Reverse Cellular Aging, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In the long lists by the Garonne on the landward side of the northern gate there had been many a strange combat, when the Teutonic knight, fresh from the conquest of the Prussian heathen, ran a course against the knight of Calatrava, hardened by continual struggle against the Moors, or cavaliers from Portugal broke a lance with Scandinavian warriors from the further shore of the great Northern Ocean.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)