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Portuguese

//ˌpɔː.t͡ʃəˈɡiːz// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to Portugal.

    "Portuguese borders"

  2. 2
    Of or pertaining to the people of Portugal or their culture.

    "Portuguese cuisines"

  3. 3
    Of or pertaining to the Portuguese language.

    "Portuguese verbs"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of Portugal or the people of Portugal or their language wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 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."

Noun
  1. 1
    A person native to, or living in, Portugal. in-plural

    "[…] 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."

  2. 2
    the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil wordnet
  3. 3
    a native or inhabitant of Portugal wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Portuguese português.

Etymology 2

From Portuguese português.

Etymology 3

From Portuguese português.

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