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Of or pertaining to the region of Portugal.
* 1973 , Roger Parkinson, The Peninsular War , page 104
Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.
* 1887 , George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States , section IV, page 33
Of or pertaining to the language.
* 1981 , Milton Mariano Azevedo, A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English , page 31
A person native to, or living in, Portugal.
* 1920 , Paulus Edward Pieris, Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658 , page 184
* 2000 , René Chartrand & Bill Younghusband, The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars , volume 1, page 23
A Romance language originating in Portugal, and now the official language of (Portugal), (Angola), .
* 2000 , João Costa, Portuguese Syntax: new comparative studies , page 65
A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Capital: Brasilia. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil) .
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* Portugueese (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.
- In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.
- The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.
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* (English Citations of "Portuguese")Noun
(Portuguese)- With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.
- Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.
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* (English Citations of "Portuguese")Proper noun
(en proper noun) {{examples-right , examples=E também as memórias gloriosas Daqueles Reis, que foram dilatando A Fé, o Império, e as terras viciosas De África e de Ásia andaram devastando; — And also the glorious memories Of those Kings, who were expanding The Faith, the Empire, and had been devastating The vicious lands of Africa and Asia; }}- 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.
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*Portuguese - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/ Webster's Dictionary- the Rosetta Edition. * English invariant nouns