Meanings
- An archipelago of nine volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean.
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An. 1449. Gonsalo Vello discovered the islands called Azores, or of Hawks, because many of those birds were seen about them. They are eight in number, viz. S. Michael, S. Mary, Jesus or Tercera, Graciosa, Pico, Fayal, Flores, and Corvo. They are near about the latitude of Lisbon. In the last of them was found the statue of a man on horseback with a cloak, but no hat, his left hand on the horse's mane, the right pointing to the west, and some characters carved on the rock under it, but not understood.
1823 [1704], The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time. (1704.). Prefixed to Churchill's Collection of Voyages, page 388 - An autonomous region of Portugal in the North Atlantic (officially the Autonomous Region of the Azores).
Origin
- PortugueseAçores“Azores”
- SpanishAzores
- EnglishAzores
Borrowed from Spanish Azores, from Portuguese Açores (“Azores”), from açores, plural of açor (“goshawk”).
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Arabic اَلْأَزُور
- اَلْأَزُور (al-ʔazūr)an archipelago and an autonomous region
Catalan Açores
- Açoresan archipelago and an autonomous region
Chinese Mandarin 亞速爾群島 /亚速尔群岛
- 亞速爾群島 /亚速尔群岛 (Yàsù'ěr qúndǎo)an archipelago and an autonomous region
Czech Azory
- Azoryan archipelago and an autonomous region
Danish Azorerne, Acorerne
- Azorernean archipelago and an autonomous region
- Acorernean archipelago and an autonomous region
Dutch Azoren
- Azorenan archipelago and an autonomous region
Esperanto Acoroj
- Acorojan archipelago and an autonomous region
Finnish Azorit
- Azoritan archipelago and an autonomous region
French les Açores
- les Açoresan archipelago and an autonomous region
German die Azoren
- die Azorenan archipelago and an autonomous region
Greek Αζόρες
- Αζόρες (Azóres)an archipelago and an autonomous region
Hindi अज़ोरेस
- अज़ोरेस (azores)an archipelago and an autonomous region
Hungarian Azori-szigetek
- Azori-szigetekan archipelago and an autonomous region
Icelandic Asoreyjar
- Asoreyjaran archipelago and an autonomous region
Irish na hAsóir
- na hAsóiran archipelago and an autonomous region
Italian le Azzorre
- le Azzorrean archipelago and an autonomous region
Japanese アゾレス諸島
- アゾレス諸島 (Azoresu-shotō)an archipelago and an autonomous region
Korean 아조레스 제도
- 아조레스 제도 (Ajoreseu jedo)an archipelago and an autonomous region
Norwegian Bokmål Asorene, Azorene
- Asorenean archipelago and an autonomous region
- Azorenean archipelago and an autonomous region
Polish Azory
- Azoryan archipelago and an autonomous region
Portuguese Açores
- Açoresan archipelago and an autonomous region
Russian Азо́рские острова́, Азо́ры
- Азо́рские острова́ (Azórskije ostrová)an archipelago and an autonomous region
- Азо́ры (Azóry)an archipelago and an autonomous region
Spanish las Azores
- las Azoresan archipelago and an autonomous region
Swedish Azorerna
- Azorernaan archipelago and an autonomous region
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with Azores
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Azores. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Azores
“Azores.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Azores. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Azores,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Azores.
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