cachaça
Syllables: ca·cha·çaUK/kəˈʃɑː.sə/US/kəˈʃɑ.sə/
cachaça noun: a type of distilled spirit made from fermented sugar cane juice, popular in Brazil, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha.
Noun
cachaça (countable and uncountable, plural cachaças)
- A type of distilled spirit made from fermented sugar cane juice, popular in Brazil, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha.
- A line of ants heads across the table, detouring around the bottle of cachaça that is now empty.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 222
- Neat cachaça put fire in your belly and stilled the pangs of hunger.2003, Peter Robb, A Death in Brazil, Bloomsbury, published 2005, page 34
Forms of cachaça
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Origin of cachaça
Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese cachaça, of uncertain origin.
Words that rhyme with cachaça
Questions about cachaça
- What does cachaça mean?
- Cachaça means a type of distilled spirit made from fermented sugar cane juice, popular in Brazil, used as one of the ingredients of a caipirinha.
- What part of speech is cachaça?
- Cachaça is a noun.
- How do you pronounce cachaça?
- Cachaça is pronounced /kəˈʃɑː.sə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cachaça?
- The plural of cachaça is cachaças.
Words near cachaça in the dictionary
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