PORTUGUESE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Portuguese mean? 

• PORTUGUESE (noun)
  The noun PORTUGUESE has 2 senses:

1. the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil

2. a native or inhabitant of Portugal

  Familiarity information: PORTUGUESE used as a noun is rare.

• PORTUGUESE (adjective)
  The adjective PORTUGUESE has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal or their language

  Familiarity information: PORTUGUESE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PORTUGUESE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Portuguese" is a kind of...):

Latinian language; Romance; Romance language (the group of languages derived from Latin)

Domain region:

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))

Derivation:

Portuguese (of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal or their language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of Portugal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Portuguese" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Portuguese" is a member 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))

Derivation:

Portuguese (of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal or their language)

• PORTUGUESE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Lusitanian; Portuguese

Context example:

Portuguese wines

Pertainym:

Portugal (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))

Derivation:

Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)

Portuguese (a native or inhabitant of Portugal)

 Context examples 

One of the seamen, in Portuguese, bid me rise, and asked who I was.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Intriguingly, they are all the same species, called Dinizia excelsa, known in Portuguese as Angelim vermelho.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

The concept does not include Brazilian Americans or Portuguese Americans.

(Multiple Hispanic, NCI Thesaurus)

One useful result of his former experiences was that he could talk fluently in the Lingoa Geral, which is the peculiar talk, one-third Portuguese and two-thirds Indian, which is current all over Brazil.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Portuguese held his tongue like a brick, and walked the plank, while the jolly tars cheered like mad.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Not since with Joe, at Shelly Hot Springs, with the one exception of the wine he took with the Portuguese grocer, had Martin had a drink at a public bar.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

According to the 2016 Amazon Deforestation Report (original Portuguese title: Panorama do Desmatamento da Amazônia 2016), the states with the largest increase in deforestation rates were Amazonas, Acre and Pará, with 54%, 47% and 41% respectively.

(Amazon lost 7,989 km² of forest in 12 months, Agência Brasil)

This foraging partnership was recorded in print as early as 1588, when a Portuguese missionary in what is now Mozambique observed a small brown bird slipping into his church to nibble his wax candles.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In Matemagos, the player enters the Kingdom of Tabu'Ada (the kindom's name makes a reference to a word in Portuguese for multiplication tables), where a sorcerer opens a dimensional portal, allowing the entrance of evil creatures.

(Brazilian professor creates mobile game that combines fun with mathematics, Agência Brasil)

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck—nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)