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Portuguese

/ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz//ˌpoɹ.t͡ʃəˈɡiz/

Portuguese adjective: of or pertaining to Portugal.

portuguese: of or pertaining to Portugal
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Adjective

Portuguese (comparative more Portuguese, superlative most Portuguese)

  1. Of or pertaining to Portugal.
    • Portuguese borders
    • The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.1973, Roger Parkinson, The Peninsular War, page 104
  2. Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
    • Portuguese cuisines
    • In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.1887, George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, section IV, page 33
  3. Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.
    • Portuguese verbs
    • The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.1981, Milton Mariano Azevedo, A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English, page 31

Noun

Portuguese (plural Portuguese or (archaic) Portugueses)

  1. (in plural) A person native to, or living in, Portugal.
    • […] but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous
    • With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.1920, Paulus Edward Pieris, Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658, page 184
    Synonyms:
    Portugal

Proper noun

Portuguese

  1. A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe, Guiné Bissau (Guinea-Bissau), Cape Verde, East Timor, and Brazil.
    • Portuguese, however, is slightly different from Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian in that there is no strict adjacency requirement between wh-words and the verbal cluster in indirect questions.2000, João Costa, Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies, page 65
    • Overall it is Taipa (which means mudflats in Portuguese and its Cantonese name Tam-zai also means mud flats) that has changed the most through reclamation followed by the east coast of the Macau Peninsula.2001, Richard Louis Edmonds, William John Kyle, “Land Use in Macau: Changes between 1972 and 1994”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural...

Portuguese meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

Portuguese in Hindi

of or relating to Portugal
पुर्तगाली purtagālī
of or relating to the people of Portugal
पुर्तगाली purtagālī
of or relating to the Portuguese language
पुर्तगाली purtagālī
person native to Portugal
पुर्तगाली purtagālī

Portuguese in Tamil

the language
போர்ச்சுகீஸ pōrccukīsa

Portuguese in Urdu

of or relating to Portugal
پرتگیزی purtugīzī
the language
پرتگالی purtagālī

Portuguese in Bengali

of or relating to Portugal
পর্তুগিজ portugij
of or relating to the Portuguese language
পর্তুগিজ portugij
the language
পর্তুগিজ portugij
More languagesFewer languages
Portuguese in Telugu
పోర్చుగీస్ pōrcugīs, బుడతకీచు buḍatakīcu
Portuguese in Malayalam
പോർച്ചുഗീസ് pōṟccugīsŭ
Portuguese in Kannada
ಪೋರ್ಚುಗೀಸ್ pōrcugīs
Portuguese in Punjabi
ਪੁਰਤਗੇਜ਼ੀ purtagezī
Portuguese in Gujarati
પોર્ટુગીઝ porṭugījh
Portuguese in Sinhala
පෘතුගීසි pr̥tugīsi
Portuguese in Nepali
पोर्तुगाली portugālī
Portuguese in Pashto
پرتګالي portagālí, پرتګالی portagāláy, پورتګالي portagālí, پورتګالی portagāláy
Portuguese in Tagalog
Portuges
Portuguese in Arabic
بُرْتُغَالِيّ burtuḡāliyy, بُرْتُغَالِيَّة burtuḡāliyya, اَلْبُرْتُغَالِيَّة al-burtuḡāliyya
Portuguese in Malay
Portugis, Portugal, bahasa Portugis, orang Portugal
Portuguese in Indonesian
Portugal, Portugis, orang Portugal, orang Portugis
Portuguese in Persian
پرتغالی portoġâli, پُرتُغالِی
Portuguese in Thai
โปรตุเกส bproo-dtù-gèet, ภาษาโปรตุเกส paasăa bprohdtòogèt
Portuguese in Vietnamese
Bồ Đào Nha, người Bồ-đào-nha, tiếng Bồ-đào-nha, tiếng Bồ Đào Nha
Portuguese in Myanmar
ပေါ်တူဂီ pautugi

Synonyms of Portuguese

Forms of Portuguese

Adjective
comparativemore Portuguese
superlativemost Portuguese
alternative formPortugueese
alternative formPortugueze
alternative formPortugese
Noun
pluralPortuguese
plural (archaic)Portugueses

Origin of Portuguese

From Portuguese português. By surface analysis, Portugal + -ese.

Words formed from Portuguese

Phrases with Portuguese

18 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with Portuguese

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about Portuguese

What does Portuguese mean?
Portuguese means of or pertaining to Portugal.
What is Portuguese in Hindi?
Portuguese in Hindi is पुर्तगाली (purtagālī). See Portuguese meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Portuguese?
Portuguese can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Portuguese?
Portuguese is pronounced /ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz/ (UK).

Words near Portuguese in the dictionary

  1. Portugese
  2. Portugoose
  3. Portugual
  4. Portugueese
  5. Portuguesa
  6. Portuguese
  7. Portuguese Congo
  8. Portuguese cubit
  9. Portuguese cubits
  10. Portuguese East Africa
  11. Portuguese Empire

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Portuguese (page history and authors); പോർച്ചുഗീസ് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); પોર્ટુગીઝ (Gujarati) (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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