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    PORTUGUESE REPUBLIC

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    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)play

    Synonyms:

    Portugal; Portuguese Republic

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

    Meronyms (parts of "Portuguese Republic"):

    Acores; Azores (islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal)

    Madeira Islands; Madeiras (a group of volcanic islands in the Atlantic Ocean to the west of Morocco; the group forms an autonomous region of Portugal)

    Braga (an ancient city in northern Portugal)

    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)

    Oporto; Porto (port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine)

    Setubal (a port city on the Atlantic coast of Portugal to the southeast of Lisbon)

    Lusitania (ancient region and Roman province on the Iberian Peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain)

    Tagus; Tagus River (a European river; flows into the North Atlantic)

    Meronyms (members of "Portuguese Republic"):

    Portuguese (a native or inhabitant of Portugal)

    Domain member region:

    Grand Inquisitor (director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal))

    duenna (a woman chaperon)

    Portuguese (the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil)

    Holonyms ("Portuguese Republic" 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 ("Portuguese Republic" 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)

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