Portuguese

comparative more Portuguese · superlative most Portuguese · alternative Portugueese · alternative Portugueze · alternative Portugese

1. Of or pertaining to Portugal.

   Portuguese borders

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   The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.

   1973, Roger Parkinson, The Peninsular War, page 104

2. Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.

   Portuguese cuisines

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   In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.

   1887, George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, section IV, page 33

3. Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.

   Portuguese verbs

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   The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.

   1981, Milton Mariano Azevedo, A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English, page 31

   Synonyms: Portingal, Lusitanian

archaic plural Portugueses · alternative Portugueese · alternative Portugueze · alternative Portugese

1. in pluralA person native to, or living in, Portugal.

   With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.

   1920, Paulus Edward Pieris, Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658, page 184

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   […] but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.

   1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous

   Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.

   2000, René Chartrand, Bill Younghusband, The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars, volume 1, page 23

   Synonyms: Portugal

alternative Portugueese · alternative Portugueze · alternative Portugese

1. A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, East Timor, and Brazil.

   Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.

   2000, João Costa, Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies, page 65

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   Overall it is Taipa (which means mudflats in Portuguese and its Cantonese name Tam-zai also means mud flats) that has changed the most through reclamation followed by the east coast of the Macau Peninsula.

   文化局

   2001, Richard Louis Edmonds, William John Kyle, “Land Use in Macau: Changes between 1972 and 1994”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century, Cultural Affairs Bureau [文化局], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 255, column 2