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sertãos

sertãos is the plural of sertão.

Meaning of sertão

Noun

sertão (plural sertãos or sertões)

  1. The semi-arid, barren inland portion of northeastern Brazil.
    • The news soon spread throughout the sertão: the saint who had wandered the length and breadth of the land for a quarter of a century had put down roots in that place surrounded by stony hills called Canudos […].1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 58
  2. (broadly) A similarly arid area in another region or country.

Questions about sertãos

What is sertãos the plural of?
Sertãos is the plural of sertão.

Words near sertãos in the dictionary

  1. sertraline
  2. SERTs
  3. sertularian
  4. sertularians
  5. sertão
  6. sertãos
  7. Serua
  8. seruant
  9. seruante
  10. seruantes
  11. seruants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sertãos (page history and authors); sertão (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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