brazil

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/bɹəˈzɪl/

noun 4name 3

Collocations

ADJ.

alone, brief, indigenous, most, northern, other, popular, popular

The most indigenous communities in Brazil have lived there for thousands of years.

VERB + BRAZIL

bones, come, go, gone, immigrated, import, meanders, moved

My grandparents immigrated to Brazil in the 1970s to find better work opportunities.

BRAZIL + NOUN

brasilia, world, years

Brazil's capital Brasilia was designed and built in just a few years during the 1950s.

PREP.

from, in, in, through, with

Coffee beans imported from Brazil are known for their rich, chocolatey flavor.

Definitions

name

A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America. Official name: Federative Republic of Brazil. Capital: Brasília.

In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.

A city, the county seat of Clay County, Indiana, United States.

name

A surname from Irish.

noun

A red-orange dye obtained from brazil wood.

A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.

The hard, brown wood of a certain species of the tribe Caesalpinieae; originally sappan (Biancaea sappan), of the East Indies, and later brazilwood, Paubrasilia echinata.

The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.

Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break. Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?

A Brazil nut.

I picked up a handful of brazils from the bowl.

A seam of coal containing iron pyrites

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the largest Latin American country and the largest Portugues

brasil

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

In February, a young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe in Brazil made brief contact with the outside world before returning to the Amazon rainforest.

Wiktionary

A small Quantity of Saffron will Tinct more then a very great Quantity of Brasil.

Wiktionary

The Prouince Brasilia tooke his name of the woode called Brasill.

Wiktionary

Thou know'st my brittle temper's prone to break. Are my bones brazil or my flesh of oak?

Wiktionary

To our surprise, she has gone to Brazil alone.

Tatoeba · #18908

We import coffee from Brazil.

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Usage Notes

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