PORTUGAL
Dictionary entry overview: What does Portugal mean?
• PORTUGAL (noun)
The noun PORTUGAL has 1 sense:
1. a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)
Familiarity information: PORTUGAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PORTUGAL (noun)
Meaning:
A republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Portugal; Portuguese Republic
Instance hypernyms:
European country; European nation (countries occupying the European continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Portugal"):
Oporto; Porto (port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine)
Tagus; Tagus River (a European river; flows into the North Atlantic)
Lusitania (ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain)
Setubal (a port city on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon)
capital of Portugal; Lisboa; Lisbon (capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic)
Braga (an ancient city in northern Portugal)
Madeira Islands; Madeiras (a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal)
Acores; Azores (islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal)
Meronyms (members of "Portugal"):
Portuguese (a native or inhabitant of Portugal)
Domain member region:
duenna (a woman chaperon)
Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)
Grand Inquisitor (director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal))
Holonyms ("Portugal" is a part of...):
Iberia; Iberian Peninsula (a peninsula in southwestern Europe)
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Holonyms ("Portugal" is a member of...):
Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)
NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)
