Madeira

//məˈdɪəɹ.ə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of Madeira (“fortified wine”). alt-of, countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A type of fortified wine produced on that island. countable, uncountable

    "Add to this, Madeira which had twice ripened beneath eastern suns—once in the grape, and once in the wood; and Port whose filmy robe of cobweb had, as old Adrian boasted, outlasted many a silken dress."

  3. 3
    an amber dessert wine from the Madeira Islands wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.
  2. 2
    The largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island.
  3. 3
    The largest tributary of the Amazon, running 900 miles from Pando Department, Bolivia through the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil to its mouth east of Manaus; in full, Madeira River.
  4. 4
    A city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cincinnati named after landowner John Madeira.
  5. 5
    A surname.

Synonyms

All synonyms
fortified winemadeira rivermarsalasherrywine

Example

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"This plant is particular to the island of Madeira."

Etymology

From Portuguese Madeira, from Portuguese madeira (“wood”), from Latin materia, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”). Doublet of matter.

Related phrases

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