Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Portuguese-speaking person, especially in a region where two or more languages are spoken.
- adjective Portuguese-speaking.
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- adjective of a person
Portuguese -speaking. - adjective of a place Portuguese-speaking.
- noun A
Portuguese speaker.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The large populations of mestizos in the Hispanic and Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) worlds, the huge biracial and tri-racial populations in the United States, South Africa, Western Europe, the Caucasus region and the huge racial variability among peoples of Jewish ancestry should surely give us pause before we make simplistic black and white claims!
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The large populations of mestizos in the Hispanic and Lusophone Portuguese-speaking worlds, the huge biracial and tri-racial populations in the United States, South Africa, Western Europe, the Caucasus region and the huge racial variability among peoples of Jewish ancestry should surely give us pause before we make simplistic black and white claims!
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Latinos include Brazil (Lusophone/Portuguese-speakers), Haitians and others.
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Lusophone bloggers, also from former Portuguese colonies, have lamented the incident and sent messages of solidarity to the people of Guinea-Bissau: From Cape Verde, João Dono [pt] says:
Guinea-Bissau President's Assassination Sparks Alarm at Instability 2009
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His main areas were early modern literature and lyric poetry, though he also maintained an abiding and fruitful interest in Lusophone studies, and his classes flowed with erudition, wit, anecdotes and reminiscences to the vast appreciation of his students who esteemed, revered and befriended him throughout a career that ended only last session.
Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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In Lisbon, after rather unproductive explorations of the Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino and Biblioteca Nacional, I focused on the Sociedade Geografia de Lisboa, whose library contains an extensive collection of materials on Lusophone Africa.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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As an influential member of the Lusophone group of countries
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Central Africa, together with those in the Lusophone group, concluded an additional agreement with representatives of the people of Sao Tome.
ANC Today 2003
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Subsequently, the countries of Central Africa, together with those in the Lusophone group, concluded an additional agreement with representatives of the people of Sao Tome.
ANC Today 2003
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So it was that we have inherited the particular systems that make up the separate traditions of local government in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone countries.
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