SAO PAULO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sao Paulo mean? 

• SAO PAULO (noun)
  The noun SAO PAULO has 1 sense:

1. an ultramodern city in southeastern Brazil; the largest city in South America

  Familiarity information: SAO PAULO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAO PAULO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ultramodern city in southeastern Brazil; the largest city in South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Sao Paulo" 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 

To develop the new method, researchers analysed 92 samples of frozen medulloblastoma’ tissue gathered from children and young adults up to 24 years old undergoing treatment in three hospitals in the state of Sao Paulo.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)

Sao Paulo is the second largest Brazilian city, with 7 million vehicles on the roads and the largest urban fleet in the country of flexible-fuel cars that can use ethanol or gasoline interchangeably.

(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)

The research, carried out in Sao Paulo, Brazil, found that environmental concentrations of particles with a diameter of 7-100 nanometers (nm) increase by 30 per cent when higher prices of ethanol forces drivers of dual-fuel (or flexible-fuel) vehicles to fill up with gasoline rather than biofuel.

(Ethanol to gasoline switch raises nanoparticles in air, SciDev.Net)