Portuguese word senses marked with place category "Countries in South America": list

Portuguese word senses marked with place category "Countries in South America"

Total 100 word senses

AI-5 (Proper name) AI-5 (a major decree (which lasted from 1968 to 1978) issued by the military dictatorship (1964–1985) in Brazil, which overruled the Constitution and included institutionalizing censorship of the media, forfeiting the mandates of some politicians and some people's right to vote)

ALERJ (Proper name) Acronym of Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (“Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro”).

Argentina (Proper name) Argentina (a country in South America; official name: República Argentina)

Bolívia (Proper name) Bolivia (a country in South America)

Bostil (Proper name) Brazil, especially in relation to its social problems; Brazil as an underdeveloped, poor, backward country

Brasil (Proper name) Brazil (A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America; official name: República Federativa do Brasil; capital: Brasília)

CIC (Noun) a card that was issued in Brazil from 1970 to mid-1980s for natural persons, which was then replaced by the CPF

CIC (Noun) a card that was issued in Brazil from 1970 to mid-1980s for natural persons, which was then replaced by the CPF; The identification number printed on a CIC card

CNH (Noun) a driver's license in Brazil

CPF (Noun) an identification number of a natural person in Brazil

CPF (Noun) a card formerly issued in Brazil with the CPF number

CUT (Proper name) Acronym of Central Única dos Trabalhadores (“Unified Workers' Central”); the main national trade union center in Brazil, formed in 1983

Chile (Proper name) Chile (a country in South America)

Colômbia (Proper name) Colombia (a country in South America)

Comissão Nacional da Verdade (Proper name) a Brazilian commission, founded in 2011, whose purpose is to investigate human rights violations in the country in the period of 1946–1988, including the military dictatorship of 1964–1985

Comissão da Verdade (Proper name) Ellipsis of Comissão Nacional da Verdade.

Dia do Fogo (Proper name) The date August 10, 2019, known as the start of an illegal large-scale organized deforestation and burning of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil.

Dia do Saci (Proper name) A yearly celebration of Brazilian culture and folklore on October 31.

Diretas Já (Proper name) a civil movement that took place in Brazil in 1983–1984, demanding direct elections for the office of president of Brazil

Ecuador (Proper name) Alternative spelling of Equador: Ecuador (a country in South America)

Emenda Dante de Oliveira (Proper name) a law amendment which was rejected at a voting in 2 March 1983, which proposed allowing direct elections for the office of president of Brazil as per the Diretas Já movement

Equador (Proper name) Ecuador (a country in South America)

Estado Novo (Proper name) the period in the history of Brazil starting with president Getúlio Vargas's coup d'état on 10 November 1937 and including the presidency of his successor José Linhares, which ended on 31 January 1946

FARC (Proper name) FARC (Marxist guerrilla groups operating in Colombia)

FHC (Proper name) Initialism of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (born 1931), 34th president of Brazil (1994–1998)

Ficha Limpa (Proper name) the Supplementary Law no. 135 of 2010 of Brazil, designed to prevent some candidates from running for political office: those who have been convicted of corruption crimes, those that have been impeached, and those that have renounced a political office to avoid impeachment

Guiana (Proper name) Guyana (a country in South America)

Ilha de Vera Cruz (Proper name) former name of given to Brazil upon discovery in 1500

Lei Maria da Penha (Proper name) Brazil's Federal Law 11340, sanctioned in 2006, with the intent of reducing domestic violence

Lei Rouanet (Proper name) Brazil's Federal Law 8313 of 23 December 1991, whose role is providing monetary funds for use in art and culture, including the production of movies

Lei Saraiva-Cotejipe (Proper name) Synonym of Lei dos Sexagenários

Lei do Ventre Livre (Proper name) the law that freed children born of slaves in Brazil in 1871

Lei Áurea (Proper name) the law that abolished slavery in Brazil in 1888

Leve Leite (Proper name) a government program to distribute milk to children in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, established in 1995

Merdil (Proper name) Brazil, especially in relation to its social problems

Minha Casa, Minha Vida (Proper name) a public housing program in Brazil, established in 2009

Nova República (Proper name) the period of the history of Brazil since the restoration of civilian government in 1985

OAB (Proper name) Initialism of Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (“Order of Attorneys of Brazil”).

Operação Lava Jato (Proper name) an investigation of money laundering in Brazil, carried off since 2014, involving the state-controlled oil company Petrobras

PROCON (Proper name) Acronym of Programa de Proteção e Defesa do Consumidor (“Consumer Protection and Defense Program”); a major institution in Brazil dedicated to consumer's rights

Paraguai (Proper name) Paraguay (a country in South America)

Peru (Proper name) Peru (a country in South America)

Pindorama (Proper name) Brazil (A large Portuguese-speaking country in South America)

Plano Cruzado (Proper name) a set of economic measures introduced in Brazil in 1986, which involved an attempt to freeze prices and taxes and the introduction of the cruzado as the national currency

Plano Real (Proper name) a set of measures taken with the intent of stabilizing the Brazilian economy in 1994, which involved with the introduction of the real as the national currency

RG (Noun) ID card (ID card issued in Brazil)

República Argentina (Proper name) Argentine Republic (official name of Argentina)

República Federativa do Brasil (Proper name) Federative Republic of Brazil (official name of Brazil)

República Oriental do Uruguai (Proper name) Oriental Republic of Uruguay (official name of Uruguay)

República do Peru (Proper name) Republic of Peru (official name of Peru)

Revolta da Vacina (Proper name) Vaccine Revolt (vaccine-related revolt that occurred in Brazil in 1904)

Semana de 22 (Proper name) Semana de Arte Moderna

Semana de Arte Moderna (Proper name) an arts festival in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 11 to February 18, 1922 and marked the beginning of the Brazilian Modernism

Supremo (Proper name) Clipping of Supremo Tribunal Federal.

Supremo Tribunal Federal (Proper name) the supreme court in Brazil

Suriname (Proper name) Suriname (a country in South America)

Terra de Santa Cruz (Proper name) the second name given to Brazil upon discovery in 1500

Troféu Imprensa (Proper name) a Brazilian annual award, established in 1961, honoring various categories in TV and music. (Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Telenovela, Best Newscast, etc.)

Uruguai (Proper name) Uruguay (a country in South America)

Venezuela (Proper name) Venezuela (a country in South America)

afro-brasileiro (Adjective) Afro-Brazilian

amahuaca (Noun) Amahuaca (Panoan language spoken in Peru)

amahuaca (Noun) member of the indigenous Amahuaca people of Peru

anadiense (Adjective) of Anadia

antioquenho (Adjective) of Antioquia, Colombia; Antioquenian

argentinidade (Noun) Argentineness (the quality of being Argentinian)

bandeirante (Noun) bandeirante

bostileiro (Noun) Brazilian

bostileiro (Adjective) Brazilian

brasiguaio (Noun) a person of Brazilian descent who lives or works in Paraguay

brasileiro (Noun) Brazilian (person from Brazil)

brasileiro (Noun) Portuguese person who migrated to Brazil

brasileiro (Noun) Brazilian Portuguese (Portuguese spoken and written in Brazil)

brasileiro (Adjective) Brazilian (of or relating to Brazil)

brasiliano (Adjective) Brazilian (of or relating to Brazil)

brasiliano (Noun) Brazilian (person from Brazil or of Brazilian descent)

cangaço (Noun) a form of social banditry in the Northeast Region of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

cara-pintada (Noun) in Brazil, in 1991–1992, any of the students who painted their faces with the colors of the national flag and went on protests demanding the impeachment of the president Fernando Collor de Mello

do Oiapoque ao Chuí (Adverb) in the whole of Brazil

feirense (Adjective) of Feira de Santana, Brazil

festa julina (Noun) an off-season festa junina (“June party”), taking place in July

festa junina (Noun) a traditional summer solstice festivity in Brazil and Portugal held in June

fiscal do Sarney (Noun) in Brazil, in 1986–1987, any citizen who demanded all prices to remain frozen as planned in José Sarney's Plano Cruzado

fluminense (Noun) native or inhabitant of the state of Rio de Janeiro

jovem guarda (Noun) a Brazilian music style and movement that started in the 1960s, often associated with soft, romantic lyrics, aimed at teenagers, influenced by American and British bands of the 1950s and 1960s

lavajatismo (Noun) support for the Operação Lava Jato (investigation of money laundering in Brazil)

nazca (Noun) a member of the Nazca people of ancient Peru

petralha (Adjective) supportive of or related to the Brazilian Worker's Party

pão de queijo (Noun) a small, baked tapioca cheese roll, which is a popular snack and breakfast food in Brazil

santanense (Adjective) of Santana, Portugal

santanense (Adjective) of Santana do Livramento, Brazil

santanense (Noun) native or inhabitant of Santana, Portugal

santanense (Noun) native or inhabitant of Santana do Livramento, Brazil

surinamense (Noun) Surinamese (person from Suriname)

surinamês (Noun) Surinamese (person from Suriname)

tropicália (Noun) Tropicália (a Brazilian cultural, artistic and musical movement starting in the late 1960s)

tupiniquim (Noun) Tupiniquim (a member of the Tupiniquim indigenous people)

tupiniquim (Adjective) Tupiniquim (of or relating to the Tupiniquim indigenous people)

tupiniquim (Adjective) Brazilian

verde e amarelo (Adjective) Brazilian

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