Brazilian
Syllables: Bra·zil·ian/bɹəˈzɪ.lɪ.ən/
Brazilian noun: a person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent. Also the ellipsis of Brazilian wax.
Noun
Brazilian (plural Brazilians)
- A person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent.
- The world descended on Rio de Janeiro for the XXXI Olympiad in 2016, but Brazilians have been ready anytime to help the world take a load off and experience something missing for a while: fun.2017 September 21, Joe Robinson, “10 things Brazil does better than anywhere else”, in CNN, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2018
Adjective
Brazilian (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Brazil, or the Brazilian people.
- U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he would support a new election in Venezuela, after Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva also floated the idea, despite rebuffs from Venezuela's ruling party and its opposition which both claim victory in the July 28 contest.2024 August 15, Reuters, “US, Brazil float new Venezuela election despite government, opposition rebuffs”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2024
- Pertaining to full removal of pubic hair.
Also used as
Brazilian is also the ellipsis of Brazilian wax.
Brazilian meaning in Arabic and Persian
Brazilian in Arabic
- pertaining to Brazil
- بَرَازِيلِيّ barāzīliyy
Brazilian in Persian
- person from Brazil
- برزیلی
Forms of Brazilian
| plural | Brazilians |
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Origin of Brazilian
From Brazil + -ian.
Words formed from Brazilian
- Afro-Brazilian
- Brazilian aardvark
- Brazilian berry
- Brazilian blowout
- Brazilian booty
- Brazilian butt
- Brazilian butt lift
- Brazilian cherry
- Brazilian duck
- Brazilian electric shower
- Brazilian emerald
- Brazilian firetree
- Brazilian free-tailed bat
- Brazilian ginseng
- Brazilian grapetree
- Brazilian grape tree
- Brazilianization
- Brazilian jasmine
- Brazilian jiu-jitsu
- Brazilian lemonade
- Brazilian logic
- Brazilian orchid tree
- Brazilian peel
- Brazilian pepper tree
- Brazilian phonk
- Brazilian pine
- Brazilian plum
- Brazilian porcupine
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Brazilian Shorthair
- Brazilian Sign Language
- Brazilian tea
- Brazilian teal
- Brazilian terrier
- Brazilian tinamou
- Brazilian wandering spider
- Brazilian wax
- Brazilian waxing
- Brazilian whiteknee tarantula
- Luso-Brazilian
- boyzilian
- manzilian
Phrases with Brazilian
- Brazilian teas
- Brazilian butts
- Brazilian ducks
- Brazilian pines
- Brazilian plums
- Brazilian teals
- Brazilian waxed
- Brazilian waxes
- Brazilian logics
- Brazilian booties
- Brazilian blowouts
- Brazilian cherries
15 more phrasesFewer phrases
- Brazilian emeralds
- Brazilian terriers
- Brazilian tinamous
- Brazilian aardvarks
- Brazilian firetrees
- Brazilian lemonades
- Brazilian butt lifts
- Brazilian grapetrees
- Brazilian porcupines
- Brazilian Shorthairs
- Brazilian orchid trees
- Brazilian pepper trees
- Brazilian electric showers
- Brazilian wandering spiders
- Brazilian whiteknee tarantulas
Words that rhyme with Brazilian
- pavilion
- vermilion
- pillion
- billion
- novemdecillion
- quintillion
- trillion
- Castilian
- centillion
- decillion
- duodecillion
- duovigintillion
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- million
- nonillion
- octillion
- octodecillion
- quadrillion
- quattuordecillion
- quattuorvigintillion
- quindecillion
- septendecillion
- septillion
- sexdecillion
- sextillion
- tredecillion
- trevigintillion
- trigintillion
- undecillion
- unvigintillion
- duotrigintillion
- gazillion
- gillian
- gillion
- godzillion
- gorillion
- Jillian
- jillion
- Kabylian
- Luxulyan
- mandilion
- mandylion
- Maximilian
- millillion
- millinillion
- novemtrigintillion
- novemvigintillion
- octogintillion
- octotrigintillion
- octovigintillion
- quadragintillion
- quattuortrigintillion
- quinquagintillion
- quinvigintillion
- septentrigintillion
- septenvigintillion
- sextrigintillion
- sexvigintillion
- squillion
- untrigintillion
- vigintillion
Questions about Brazilian
- What does Brazilian mean?
- Brazilian means a person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent.
- What is Brazilian in Arabic?
- Brazilian in Arabic is بَرَازِيلِيّ (barāzīliyy). See Brazilian meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is Brazilian?
- Brazilian can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce Brazilian?
- Brazilian is pronounced /bɹəˈzɪ.lɪ.ən/.
- What is the plural of Brazilian?
- The plural of Brazilian is Brazilians.
Words near Brazilian in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Brazilian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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