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sertanejo

sertanejo noun: in Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.

Noun

sertanejo (plural sertanejos)

  1. In Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.
    • Life in the open air had made him as tanned and weather-beaten as a sertanejo.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 239
  2. A type of Brazilian folk music.
    • I hate sertanejo music. This has something to do with when I was a teenager and my dad liked sertanejo while I wanted to be totally different.2010, Felipe Trotta, Annoying Music in Everyday Life

Forms of sertanejo

pluralsertanejos

Origin of sertanejo

From Portuguese sertanejo.

Questions about sertanejo

What does sertanejo mean?
Sertanejo means in Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.
What part of speech is sertanejo?
Sertanejo is a noun.
What is the plural of sertanejo?
The plural of sertanejo is sertanejos.

Words near sertanejo in the dictionary

  1. serry
  2. serrying
  3. sers
  4. SERT
  5. sertaconazole
  6. sertanejo
  7. sertanejos
  8. sertanista
  9. sertanistas
  10. Serthi
  11. sertindole

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