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There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
William Bligh

Meaning of "Portuguese" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PORTUGUESE

Portuguese  [ˌpɔːtjʊˈɡiːz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PORTUGUESE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Portuguese can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PORTUGUESE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Portuguese

Portuguese may refer to: ▪ anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ▪ Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ▪ Portuguese language, a Romance language ▪ Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ▪ Portuguese man o' war, a dangerous marine cnidarian that resembles an 18th-century armed sailing ship ▪ Portuguese mythology, traditional religion ▪ Portuguese people, an ethnic group...

Definition of Portuguese in the English dictionary

The first definition of Portuguese in the dictionary is the official language of Portugal, its overseas territories, and Brazil: the native language of approximately 110 million people. It belongs to the Romance group of the Indo-European family and is derived from the Galician dialect of Vulgar Latin. Other definition of Portuguese is -guese. a native, citizen, or inhabitant of Portugal. Portuguese is also relating to, denoting, or characteristic of Portugal, its inhabitants, or their language.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PORTUGUESE


Antilles
ænˈtɪliːz
bases
ˈbeɪsiːz
Belize
bəˈliːz
Chinese
tʃaɪˈniːz
classes
ˈklæsiːz
dieses
ˈdaɪəsiːz
disease
dɪˈziːz
ease
iːz
expertise
ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz
he´s
hiːz
Japanese
ˌdʒæpəˈniːz
keys
kiːz
mise
miːz
please
pliːz
Portuguese-speaking
ˌpɔːtjʊˈɡiːz
series
ˈsɪəriːz
she´s
ʃiːz
species
ˈspiːʃiːz
tales
ˈteɪliːz
these
ðiːz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PORTUGUESE

Portsmouth
Portugal
Portugal laurel
Portuguese East Africa
Portuguese Guinea
Portuguese Guinean
Portuguese India
Portuguese man-of-war
Portuguese Timor
Portuguese water dog
Portuguese West Africa
Portuguese-speaking
portulaca
portulacaceous
porty
porwiggle
pory
POS

WORDS THAT END LIKE PORTUGUESE

Burmese
Cantonese
cream cheese
diocese
geese
Guyanese
imprese
Lebanese
Maltese
manganese
mese
Milanese
Nepalese
obese
prese
Sudanese
Surinamese
Taiwanese
Varese
Vietnamese

Synonyms and antonyms of Portuguese in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Portuguese» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PORTUGUESE

Find out the translation of Portuguese to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Portuguese from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Portuguese» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

葡萄牙的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

portugués
570 millions of speakers

English

Portuguese
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पुर्तगाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بُرْتُغَالِيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

португальский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

português
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পর্তুগীজ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

portugais
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Portugis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

portugiesisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ポルトガルの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

포르투갈의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Portugis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc nước/người/tiếng Bồ Đào Nha
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போர்த்துகீசியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोर्तुगीज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Portekizce
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

portoghese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

portugalski
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

португальський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

portughez
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πορτογαλικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Portugees
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

portugisisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

portugisisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Portuguese

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PORTUGUESE»

The term «Portuguese» is very widely used and occupies the 4.050 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of Portuguese
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Portuguese».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PORTUGUESE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Portuguese» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Portuguese» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Portuguese

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PORTUGUESE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Portuguese.
1
Kiran Ahluwalia
My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.
2
William Bligh
There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
3
Adele Exarchopoulos
In our generation, everybody told us that it's really important and it's nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It's an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.
4
Nelly Furtado
Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
5
Izabel Goulart
I speak English, Portuguese, and French. One day I'd love to learn Italian.
6
Francois Hollande
When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.
7
Stana Katic
My parents are European immigrants. And I think as Europeans there are so many languages in close proximity that it's part of the culture to try to learn at least one other language. So my parents really encourage it in the house. Chinese would be really great to learn - like Mandarin or Cantonese. Portuguese would be incredible.
8
Emeril Lagasse
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
9
Joseph C. Lincoln
But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
10
Joseph C. Lincoln
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTUGUESE»

Discover the use of Portuguese in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Portuguese and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book: Speak, ...
The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with CD makes Brazilian Portuguese easy to grasp. Author Fernanda L. Ferreira, Ph.D., provides readers with step-by-step instruction in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
Fernanda Ferreira, 2007
2
Portuguese: A Linguistic Introduction
This accessible 2005 book provides a comprehensive introduction to the linguistic structure of Portuguese.
Milton M. Azevedo, 2005
3
Portuguese For Dummies
That's right, Portuguese! And what's the fastest, easiest, most enjoyable way to learn Portuguese? Portuguese for Dummies, of course! This fun, friendly guide helps you start speaking Brazilian Portuguese immediately!
Karen Keller, 2013
4
The Everything Brazilian Portuguese Phrase Book: Learn Basic ...
Conveniently organized by subject and situation, this handy guide includes information on: How to make introductions, professionally and casually Ordering food in restaurants (with phrases for special diets and allergies) Asking for and ...
Fernanda Ferreira, 2013
5
Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580
Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
Bailey Wallys Diffie, 1977
6
Colloquial Portuguese: A Complete Language Course
Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, this course offers a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Portuguese. This edition contains teaching language of the Internet.
João Sampaio, Barbara McIntyre, 2002
7
Brazilian Portuguese-English/English-Brazilian Portuguese ...
This bilingual dictionary and travel-oriented phrasebook focuses on the Portuguese of Brazil, which is spoken by more than 170 million people worldwide -- Back cover.
Osmar de Almedia-Santos, 2004
8
Portuguese: A Reference Manual
Accessible to non-linguists and novice language learners, as well as informative for instructors of Portuguese and specialists in other languages, this guide incorporates the Orthographic Accord (in effect since 2009–2010), which attempts ...
Sheila R. Ackerlind, Rebecca Jones-Kellogg, 2012
9
Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640
James C. Boyajian shows how Portuguese-Asian commerce formed part of a global trading network that linked not only Europe and Asia but also—for the first time—Asia, West Africa, Brazil, and Spanish America.
James C. Boyajian, 2007
10
A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English
Compares the sounds, phonology, and prosody of General American English and Southeastern Brazilian Portuguese.
Milton M. Azevedo, 1981

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORTUGUESE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Portuguese is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Book: 'Before 1492 -The Portuguese Discovery of America' - Editor's …
'Before 1492: The Portuguese Discovery of America' presents a compelling argument, based upon known historical facts and reasonable ... «Portuguese American Journal, Jul 15»
2
New York Red Bulls 2, Benfica 1: RBNY top Portuguese champs …
The New York Red Bulls earned a 2-1 victory over S.L. Benfica in an International Champions Cup match Sunday night at Red Bull Arena. «MLSsoccer.com, Jul 15»
3
Portuguese company Avianense sets up chocolate factory in Angola
The managing director of Portuguese chocolate factory Avianense, founded in Viana do Castelo in 1914, announced the company was in talks ... «Macauhub, Jul 15»
4
Festival, parades celebrate Newark's Portuguese heritage
A nearly century-old celebration of Portuguese heritage and faith, the 93rd annual Newark Holy Ghost Festival, or "Festa Do Espirito Santo De ... «Daily Democrat, Jul 15»
5
Portuguese PM calls for support to give Portugal "a new soul"
Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho on Sunday called for support to give Portugal "a new soul" while blaming the main opposition ... «Einnews Portugal, Jul 15»
6
Final Day of Portuguese Open Nats Brings Down One More Junior …
The 2015 Portuguese Open Nationals concluded today from Coimbra, but not without yet another junior record falling during the final... Stock ... «SwimSwam, Jul 15»
7
Former Portuguese bank boss under house arrest
Ricardo Salgado, the former boss of the Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo (BES), has been placed under house arrest after questioning ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
8
Diana Margarida Duraes Sets National Record at Portuguese
After two days of flirting with national records, the 2015 Portuguese Nationals finally saw one of the marks go down. Oddly enough, it came from ... «Swimming World Magazine, Jul 15»
9
Portuguese defender Pepe confident that Sergio Ramos will stay at …
"I'm fine and I don't think any of us are thinking about what might happen if Sergio leaves us," the Portuguese said at a media conference ... «FOXSports.com, Jul 15»
10
Former Liverpool manager makes STUNNING admission about …
Tensions between the Portuguese international and the ex-Liverpool and Chelsea boss appeared to have reached boiling point when Ronaldo ... «caughtoffside, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Portuguese [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/portuguese>. Apr 2024 ».
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