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Lisboa

Lisboa is the dated form of Lisbon.

Meaning of Lisbon

Proper noun

Lisbon

  1. A port city on the Iberian Peninsula, at the mouth of the Tagus River on the Atlantic Ocean; the capital city of Portugal.
    • We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.”2012 March 19, David Denby, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s: “Casablanca” on the Big Screen”, in The New Yorker, archived from the original on 30 Dec 2024
  2. A district of Portugal around the capital.
    Synonyms:
    Olisipo, Lisboa
  3. (metonymically) The Portuguese government.
  4. A town in New London County, Connecticut.
  5. A census-designated place in Lake County, Florida.
  6. A village and township in Kendall County, Illinois.

See all 23 meanings of Lisbon

Origin of Lisboa

Derived from Portuguese Lisboa.

Questions about Lisboa

What is Lisboa the dated form of?
Lisboa is the dated form of Lisbon.

Words near Lisboa in the dictionary

  1. Lisantis
  2. Lisarow
  3. LISAs
  4. Lisaw
  5. Lisaws
  6. Lisboa
  7. Lisbon
  8. Lisbon Falls
  9. Lisboner
  10. Lisboners
  11. Lisbonite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lisboa (page history and authors); Lisbon (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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