Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to Portugal or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of Portugal.
  • noun A person of Portuguese ancestry.
  • noun The Romance language of Portugal and Brazil.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to Portugal, a kingdom of Europe, situated west of Spain. Abbreviated Pg., Port.
  • noun An inhabitant of Portugal; as a collective plural, the people of Portugal.
  • noun The language of Portugal. It is one of the Romance group of languages, and is nearly allied to Spanish.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.
  • adjective (Zoöl.) See Physalia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to the region of Portugal.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
  • noun A person native to, or living in, Portugal.
  • proper noun A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Moçambique (Mozambique), São Tomé e Príncipe (São Tomé and Príncipe), Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cabo Verde (Cape Verde), Timor Leste (East Timor), and Brasil (Brazil).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal or their language
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Portugal
  • noun the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Portuguese português, from Vulgar Latin *portugalēnsis, ultimately from Late Latin Portus Cale, the ancient port of Gaya (Oporto).]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Portuguese português.

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  • While the imagery here -- the clinging vines, the strong tree -- and some of the sentiments might at first confirm our suspicions that Sonnets from the Portuguese is an embarassing sequence of poems, it helps if we focus on this sonnet's strange violence towards thought and on its emphasis on thought as violence that chokes and conceals its object.

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  • My introduction to Rodney's artwork was the Conan comic Natala, A Escrava ( "Natala, the Slave"), written by Osvaldo Magalhães and drawn by Rodney Buchemi, which was posted in Portuguese here.

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  • Hint: Google translate in Portuguese (or just google the website and click "Translate this page") if you like English words with your pics!

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