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Definition of Brazilian

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of Brazil or the people of Brazil.

Definition of Brazilian

1. a. Of or pertaining to Brazil.

Definition of Brazilian

1. Noun. A person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent. ¹

2. Noun. A style of pubic hair removal (shortened form of "Brazilian bikini wax") ¹

3. Adjective. Of, from, or pertaining to Brazil, or the Brazilian people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Brazilian

Literary usage of Brazilian

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

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modernby Charles Dudley Warner by Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"a French-Brazilian historian; a missionary in Brazil, and author of an account of great ... a Brazilian poet; author of tragedies and of a sacred drama, ..."

2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1870)
"Most of the Brazilian rear-guard saved themselves by abandoning their horses ... General McMahon was attended to the Brazilian lines by a Paraguayan guard ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"I. Brazilian MISADVENTURE By RICHARD FREEMAN From the New Statesman and Nation, London Independent Weekly of the Left the odd behavior of the Brazilian ..."

4. Brazil Today and Tomorrow by Lilian Elwyn (Elliott) Joyce (1917)
"At the outbreak of war a large number of German and Austrian steamers took refuge in Brazilian ports, and there lay for two and a half years, ..."

5. OECD Review of Agricultural Policies by SourceOECD (Online service) (2005)
"Structural characteristics of Brazilian farms, 1995/96 176 3.4. Income and expenditure patterns of Brazilian households 177 3.5. ..."

6. The Proceedings of the Hague Peace Conferences: Translation of the Original by James Brown Scott, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Division of International Law (1921)
"The Commission will decide, in the first place, whether it will take the Brazilian proposal under consideration; after this vote it will decide whether it ..."

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