Definition of Portuguese

Portuguese

Of or pertaining to Portugal, or its inhabitants.

A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal.

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Inhabitant, Native, Of, Or, People, Pertaining, To

Portuguese Quotations

You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.
Jose Mourinho

I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.
Dinesh D'Souza

I am fluent in Spanish and I understand French, Italian and Portuguese.
Zoe Saldana

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.
Cristiano Ronaldo

I grew up in Fall River, Massachusetts. My background was modest, and I worked at a Portuguese bakery in town.
Emeril Lagasse

Mom ran the house, so we grew up Portuguese.
Emeril Lagasse

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.
William Bligh

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
Walter Salles

My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.
Joseph C. Lincoln

But very unfortunately the merchant marine died away till even the majority of fishing done about the Cape is in the hands of the Portuguese who emigrated to the Cape some fifty years ago.
Joseph C. Lincoln

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.
Nelly Furtado

At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the indirect voice for the noble Spanish and Portuguese tongues.
Gabriela Mistral

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Portuguese Translations

Portuguese in Afrikaans is Portugees
Portuguese in Danish is portugiser
Portuguese in Dutch is Portugees
Portuguese in French is portugais
portuguese in German is portugiesisch
Portuguese in Italian is Portoghese
Portuguese in Norwegian is Portugisisk
portuguese in Swedish is portugis

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