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Portugall

Portugall is the obsolete form of Portugal.

Meaning of Portugal

Proper noun

Portugal

  1. A country in Southern Europe, on the Iberian Peninsula. Official name: Portuguese Republic. Capital and largest city: Lisbon.
    • A distinction is usually made between Old Portuguese (português antigo, português arcaico), referring to the period from the earliest texts to 1540, Classical Portuguese (1540-1850), and Modern Portuguese (1850 to the present). There is sometimes a further subdivision of the Old Portuguese period...2000, Glanville Price, Encyclopedia of the languages of Europe, reprint, illustrated edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 367
    Synonyms:
    Lusitania

See all 2 meanings of Portugal

Noun

Portugall (plural Portugalls)

  1. (obsolete) A Portuguese person.
    • AMONGST other coũtryes which were vnknowne to vs of Europe vntill in this later age they were diſcouered by the Spaniardes & Portugalls, one is Iapone...1619, W. W. Gent (translator), A briefe relation of the persecution lately made against the Catholike christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia
    • The Kingdome of Congo is about 600. miles diameter any way, the chiefe Citie called St. Savadore, seated upon an exceeding high mountaine, 150. miles from the Sea, verie fertile, and inhabited with more than 100000. persons, where is an excellent prospect over all the plaine Countreyes about it...1630, John Smith, Travels of Captaine John Smith, 1907 edition, Vol. II, p. 167-8 https://web.archive.org/web/20081203181040/http://www.webroots.org/library/usahist/ghov2-07.html

Forms of Portugall

pluralPortugalls

Origin of Portugall

See Portugal.

Questions about Portugall

What does Portugall mean?
Portugall means a Portuguese person.
What is Portugall the obsolete form of?
Portugall is the obsolete form of Portugal.
What part of speech is Portugall?
Portugall is a noun.
What is the plural of Portugall?
The plural of Portugall is Portugalls.

Words near Portugall in the dictionary

  1. Portugal Cove-St. Philip's
  2. Portugal laurel
  3. Portugalete
  4. Portugalism
  5. Portugalisms
  6. Portugall
  7. Portugalls
  8. Portugals
  9. Portugee
  10. Portugees
  11. Portugeese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Portugall (page history and authors); Portugal (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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