RIO DE JANEIRO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rio de Janeiro mean? 

• RIO DE JANEIRO (noun)
  The noun RIO DE JANEIRO has 1 sense:

1. the former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil; chief Brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction

  Familiarity information: RIO DE JANEIRO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIO DE JANEIRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The former capital and 2nd largest city of Brazil; chief Brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Rio; Rio de Janeiro

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (members of "Rio de Janeiro"):

Carioca (a native or inhabitant of Rio de Janeiro)

Holonyms ("Rio de Janeiro" is a part of...):

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

 Context examples 

Rio de Janeiro is the second part of the world to confirm this type of transmission.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

Oceanographic ship Ary Rongel set off Wednesday (Oct. 11) from Rio de Janeiro with 107 crew members to provide support for Brazil’s scientific research projects in Antarctica.

(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)

Also under research is the use of microalgae in the production of aviation biokerosene (BioQAV) in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

(Petrobras considers producing biodiesel from microalgae, Agência Brasil)

Rio de Janeiro State Health Surveillance Under-Secretary Alexandre Chieppe pointed out his state is not experiencing an outbreak, although the authorities remain on the watch.

(Aedes mosquitoes almost impossible to eradicate, says Brazilian researcher, Agência Brasil)

Brazil's National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro, unveiled the details surrounding the discovery of hundreds of remains of pterosaur bones and 300 eggs—some of them with preserved embryos—in China.

(Brazil and China scientists unearth pterosaur eggs with preserved embryos, Agência Brasil)

This discovery is the result of a collaboration by the Ministry for Science, Technology, and Innovation's Centre for Mineral Technology (CETEM); the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa); the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); and Geological Survey housed under the Ministry of Mines and Energy.

(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)

A study by scientists at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) found that the Zika virus, in addition to replicating in the brain of adults, also damages the memory and the motor system.

(Zika virus found to harm adults’ memory and motor system, Agência Brasil/EBC)

Some of the most vulnerable cities include Rio de Janeiro, Santos (São Paulo), Fortaleza (Ceará), Recife (Pernambuco), Salvador (Bahia) and, in Brazil's South region, the Vale do Itajaí region of Santa Catarina, which in addition to the rising sea level, is at risk of becoming a hurricane route.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

But after DNA testing on the blood of infected people in Rio de Janeiro, the team found that their disease was caused by the Plasmodium simium parasite, not P. vivax.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)

A parasite that causes malaria in monkeys infected 50 people between 2015 and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, in the Mata Atlântica region.

(Human malaria spread from monkeys found in Brazil, SciDev.Net)