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Adjective [English]

Audio: En-au-povvo.ogg Forms: more povo [comparative], most povo [superlative], povvo [alternative]
Etymology: Probably a blend of poverty + -o (diminutive suffix), owing to the term's Australian origins. Alternatively, borrowed from Portuguese povo (“common people; the working class”). Etymology templates: {{blend|en|poverty|-o|nocap=1|pos2=diminutive suffix}} blend of poverty + -o (diminutive suffix), {{bor+|en|pt|povo|nocap=1|t=common people; the working class}} borrowed from Portuguese povo (“common people; the working class”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} povo (comparative more povo, superlative most povo)
  1. (Australia, British, slang, derogatory) Poor, penniless. Tags: Australia, British, derogatory, slang
    Sense id: en-povo-en-adj-XQVbA-Fb Categories (other): Australian English, British English, English blends, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English blends: 57 43 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 66 34

Noun [English]

Audio: En-au-povvo.ogg Forms: povos [plural], povvo [alternative]
Etymology: Probably a blend of poverty + -o (diminutive suffix), owing to the term's Australian origins. Alternatively, borrowed from Portuguese povo (“common people; the working class”). Etymology templates: {{blend|en|poverty|-o|nocap=1|pos2=diminutive suffix}} blend of poverty + -o (diminutive suffix), {{bor+|en|pt|povo|nocap=1|t=common people; the working class}} borrowed from Portuguese povo (“common people; the working class”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} povo (plural povos)
  1. (Australia, British, slang, derogatory) One who is poor, a pauper. Tags: Australia, British, derogatory, slang Categories (topical): People Synonyms: pov
    Sense id: en-povo-en-noun-zuxCXT-U Disambiguation of People: 21 79 Categories (other): Australian English, British English

Noun [Esperanto]

IPA: /ˈpovo/ Audio: LL-Q143 (epo)-Robin van der Vliet-povo.wav Forms: povon [accusative, singular], povoj [plural], povojn [accusative, plural]
Rhymes: -ovo Etymology: From povi + -o. Etymology templates: {{af|eo|povi|-o}} povi + -o Head templates: {{eo-head}} povo (accusative singular povon, plural povoj, accusative plural povojn)
  1. ability
    Sense id: en-povo-eo-noun-vP-qtn30 Categories (other): Esperanto entries with incorrect language header, Esperanto terms suffixed with -o, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 15 6 62 4 0 0 1 10 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 18 8 57 3 0 0 1 13

Noun [Ido]

Forms: povi [plural]
Head templates: {{head|io|noun|head=}} povo, {{io-noun|pov}} povo (plural povi)
  1. ability Synonyms (ability): habileso
    Sense id: en-povo-io-noun-vP-qtn30 Categories (other): Ido entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Ido entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of 'ability': 100 0
  2. power
    Sense id: en-povo-io-noun-B9cV7baW
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: povar

Noun [Portuguese]

IPA: /ˈpo.vu/ [Brazil], /ˈpo.vu/ [Brazil], /ˈpo.vo/ [Southern-Brazil], /ˈpo.vu/ [Portugal], /ˈpo.vu/ [Portugal], /ˈpo.bu/ [Northern, Portugal], [ˈpo.βu] [Northern, Portugal] Forms: povos [plural], metaphonic [plural]
Etymology: From Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), maybe from Etruscan. Cognate with Galician pobo. Etymology templates: {{inh|pt|roa-opt|poboo}} Old Galician-Portuguese poboo, {{inh|pt|la|populus|t=people, nation}} Latin populus (“people, nation”), {{inh|pt|itc-pro|*poplos||army}} Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), {{der|pt|ett|-}} Etruscan, {{cog|gl|pobo}} Galician pobo Head templates: {{pt-noun|m|meta=1}} povo m (plural povos, metaphonic)
  1. people Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-povo-pt-noun-yQImgPiI
  2. hamlet (a small village or a group of houses) Tags: masculine Synonyms: lugarejo
    Sense id: en-povo-pt-noun-FtLxp~-R
  3. (Brazil) mob Tags: Brazil, masculine
    Sense id: en-povo-pt-noun-mjcOvZUT Categories (other): Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header, Portuguese nouns with metaphony Disambiguation of Portuguese entries with incorrect language header: 13 8 78 Disambiguation of Portuguese nouns with metaphony: 22 11 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: população, popular, povoado, povoar, póvoa

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      },
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    }
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    {
      "form": "more povo",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most povo",
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        "superlative"
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        "British English",
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          "text": "She went to some povo school down the street.",
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          "text": "This is where, 30 years ago, the docking industry was destroyed, leading to one of the lengthiest industrial disputes in British history, causing a 20 per cent unemployment rate and casting Liverpool as a \"povo city\" (the jobless rate now stands at a respectable 4 per cent.)",
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        },
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          "ref": "2013, Chris Lilley, Ja'mie: Private School Girl, season 1, episode 3, spoken by Ja'mie King, HBO:",
          "text": "And he's really adorbs. I've been spending time with him and his community in this really povo area in the Western suburbs [sc. of Sydney]. I've been like reading to him and just chilling and stuff. It's legit a seriously tragic environment.",
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          "ref": "2017 June 17, Tara Kenny, “I was a poor kid at a wealthy private school. It gave me social mobility, but also a sense of shame”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:",
          "text": "The school wasn’t exclusively populated by the children of haughty elitists who wanted their baby geniuses shielded from povo “flat rats” either, (although I suspect there was a bit of that). Many wonderful, open minded people sent their children there, including middle class families who struggled financially to secure that promised leg up in life.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2024 April 7, Eleanor Morgan, “Are you rich and ridiculous? TikTok comedian Shabaz Ali has you in his sights”, in The Observer, →ISSN:",
          "text": "It feels “weirdly liberating” for him to now have thousands of people commenting under his videos about how they’re proud to be povvo.",
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        }
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        "Poor, penniless."
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          "poor"
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        "(Australia, British, slang, derogatory) Poor, penniless."
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        "British",
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        "slang"
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}

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      "form": "povos",
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        {
          "text": "This area is full of povos.",
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        "One who is poor, a pauper."
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        "(Australia, British, slang, derogatory) One who is poor, a pauper."
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    {
      "word": "pov"
    }
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}

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    "Pages with entries"
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  "etymology_text": "From povi + -o.",
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    {
      "form": "povon",
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        "accusative",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "povoj",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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        "plural"
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    }
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      "args": {},
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  "hyphenation": [
    "po‧vo"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "eo",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Esperanto 2-syllable words",
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        "Esperanto lemmas",
        "Esperanto nouns",
        "Esperanto terms suffixed with -o",
        "Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 4 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Esperanto/ovo"
      ],
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        "ability"
      ],
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        [
          "ability",
          "ability"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpovo/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ovo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "povo"
}

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    "Ido entries with incorrect language header",
    "Ido lemmas",
    "Ido nouns",
    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
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    {
      "word": "povar"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "form": "povi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
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        "1": "pov"
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    }
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    {
      "glosses": [
        "ability"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ability",
          "ability"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "power"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "power",
          "power"
        ]
      ]
    }
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    {
      "sense": "ability",
      "word": "habileso"
    }
  ],
  "word": "povo"
}

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    "Pages with 4 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Portuguese 2-syllable words",
    "Portuguese countable nouns",
    "Portuguese entries with incorrect language header",
    "Portuguese lemmas",
    "Portuguese masculine nouns",
    "Portuguese nouns",
    "Portuguese nouns with metaphony",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Etruscan",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Latin",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese",
    "Portuguese terms inherited from Proto-Italic",
    "Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "kea",
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          },
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          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Kabuverdianu: povu"
    },
    {
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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mjb",
            "2": "povu",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Makalero: povu",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Makalero: povu"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mwl",
            "2": "pobo",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Mirandese: pobo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Mirandese: pobo"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "roa-opt",
        "3": "poboo"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "la",
        "3": "populus",
        "t": "people, nation"
      },
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*poplos",
        "4": "",
        "5": "army"
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      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "pt",
        "2": "ett",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Etruscan",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gl",
        "2": "pobo"
      },
      "expansion": "Galician pobo",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Galician-Portuguese poboo (displacing collateral form poblo), from Latin populus (“people, nation”), from Proto-Italic *poplos (“army”), maybe from Etruscan. Cognate with Galician pobo.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "povos",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "metaphonic",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "m",
        "meta": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "povo m (plural povos, metaphonic)",
      "name": "pt-noun"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "pt",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "população"
    },
    {
      "word": "popular"
    },
    {
      "word": "povoado"
    },
    {
      "word": "povoar"
    },
    {
      "word": "póvoa"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "people"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "people",
          "people"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "hamlet (a small village or a group of houses)"
      ],
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        [
          "hamlet",
          "hamlet"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "lugarejo"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
        "Brazilian Portuguese"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "mob"
      ],
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        [
          "mob",
          "mob"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Brazil) mob"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Brazil",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpo.vu/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpo.vu/",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpo.vo/",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-Brazil"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpo.vu/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpo.vu/",
      "tags": [
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpo.bu/",
      "tags": [
        "Northern",
        "Portugal"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈpo.βu]",
      "tags": [
        "Northern",
        "Portugal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "pt:povo"
  ],
  "word": "povo"
}

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