Lexic.us

Definition of Portuguese

1. Noun. The Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil.

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal or their language. "Portuguese wines"

3. Noun. A native or inhabitant of Portugal.

Definition of Portuguese

1. a. Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.

Definition of Portuguese

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the region of Portugal. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture. ¹

3. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language. ¹

4. Noun. A person native to, or living in, Portugal. ¹

5. Proper noun. A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of (w Portugal), (w Angola), (w Mozambique Moçambique (Mozambique)), (w São Tomé and Príncipe São Tomé e Príncipe (São Tomé and Príncipe)), (w Guinea-Bissau Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau)), (w Cabo Verde Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)), (w Timor Leste Timor Leste (East Timor))(,) and (w Brazil Brasil (Brazil)). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Portuguese

Portland cement Portland stone Portman Portmore Porto Porto-Novo Porto Alegre Porto Novo Porto Rico Porto Velho

Portsmouth Portugal Portugall Portugalls Portugese Portuguese Portuguese-Canadian Portuguese Congo Portuguese East Africa Portuguese Guinea

Portuguese Republic Portuguese Sign Language Portuguese Water Dog Portuguese Water Dogs Portuguese West Africa Portuguese cypress Portuguese escudo Portuguese heath Portuguese man-of-war Portuguese men-of-war

Literary usage of Portuguese

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The history of the portuguese conquests in India dates from the arrival of Vasco da Gama in 1498, followed by the acquisition of ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Early French introduced by Henry of Burgundy and his suite also constituted an element in the formation of the portuguese language, and old French words ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"... 143 CHRONOLOGICAL CONSPECTUS portuguese Literature, is sketched in the Library by way of introduction to the account of ' Portugal's one supremely great ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The portuguese hold on the Spice Islands had always been precarious ... Even in Ceylon, where more than elsewhere the portuguese could claim real ..."

5. A History of the Inquisition of Spain by Henry Charles Lea (1907)
"In 1605, at Toledo, Antonio Fernandez Paredes, a portuguese on trial with three witnesses against him, was obliged to insist on his right under the pardon, ..."

6. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1845)
"In case of dispute, the portuguese consuls are required to make the foreign master ... portuguese POSSESSIONS ABROAD. Decree designating the ports of those ..."

7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"THE portuguese WAR. THE state of our relations with Portugal has become so ... The competitors for the portuguese throne are equally indifferent to us, ..."

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