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Camões

Camões proper noun: luís de Camões, a 16th-century Portuguese poet.

Proper noun

Camões

  1. Luís de Camões, a 16th-century Portuguese poet.

Forms of Camões

alternative formCamoes
alternative formCamoens
alternative formCamoëns

Origin of Camões

From Portuguese Camões, from a Galician habitational surname originating in Camos (spelled Camões and Camones in Medieval Galician), a parish in southern Galicia.

Words formed from Camões

Questions about Camões

What does Camões mean?
Camões means luís de Camões, a 16th-century Portuguese poet.
What part of speech is Camões?
Camões is a proper noun.

Words near Camões in the dictionary

  1. camwhores
  2. camwhoring
  3. camwood
  4. camwoods
  5. camylofin
  6. Camões
  7. Camăr
  8. can
  9. can a duck
  10. can a duck swim
  11. can belto

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Camões (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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