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📚 adj • entry_id 915

Portuguese

/ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
portugués
Of or pertaining to Portugal.
Portuguese borders
The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.
portugués
Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
Portuguese verbs
The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.
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📚 name • entry_id 917

Portuguese

/ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
portugués
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.
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 coas…
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…
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📚 noun • entry_id 916

Portuguese

/ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
portuguesa • portugués
A 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.
[…] 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…
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