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Definition of Brasil
1. Noun. The largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter.
Examples of category: Macumba
Group relationships: Oas, Organization Of American States
Generic synonyms: South American Country, South American Nation
Terms within: Triple Frontier, Acre, Belem, Feliz Lusitania, Para, Santa Maria De Belem, St. Mary Of Bethlehem, Belo Horizonte, Brasilia, Brazilian Capital, Capital Of Brazil, Curitiba, Joao Pessoa, Governador Valadares, Limeira, Natal, Rio, Rio De Janeiro, Pernambuco, Recife, Santos, Sao Bernardo Do Campo, Sao Goncalo, Sao Joao De Meriti, Sao Jose Dos Campos, Sao Louis, Sao Paulo, Amazon, Amazon River, Araguaia, Araguaia River, Araguaya, Araguaya River, Iguassu, Iguassu Falls, Iguazu, Iguazu Falls, Victoria Falls, Madeira, Madeira River, Para, Para River, Parana, Parana River, Parnahiba, Parnaiba, Paulo Afonso, Paulo Afonso Falls, Purus, Purus River, Sao Francisco, Guaira, Guaira Falls, Sete Quedas, Tocantins, Tocantins River, Urubupunga, Urubupunga Falls
Group relationships: South America
Member holonyms: Brazilian
Derivative terms: Brazilian
Definition of Brasil
1. Proper noun. (alternative spelling of Brazil) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Brasil
1. brazil [n -S] - See also: brazil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brasil
Literary usage of Brasil
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Experimental Researches Concerning the Philosophy of Permanent Colours: And by Edward Bancroft (1814)
"Other dyeing woods had, however, been previously known under the name of brasil;
and, probably, that of the caesalpinia sappan, to be noticed presently. ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"Similar notions were entertained as to the islands of St Brandan, and brasil, by
the seamen of Bristol, who during these years were scouring the Atlantic ..."
3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"0 brasil e sens principios de neutralidade (Brazil and her Principles of Neutrality).
By Helio Lobo. Rio de Janeiro: Imprensa nacional. 1914. pp. 140. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"The assumption that brasil wood was imported into Italy, and paid tax at the ...
The island named Y" de brasil is Tercera : " Por la medianía y en lo mas ..."
5. The History of Modern Europe: with an Account of the Decline and Fall of the by William Russell (1837)
"... every part of the New World; and they made themselves masters of the important
colony of brasil in South America. But this was not a permanent conquest. ..."
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