Brazilian

Examples

• All

• During the years of the dictatorship, they served as an important space for ordinary Brazilians to air popular grievances.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Brazilians are the warmest and friendliest and most chill people you're ever gonna meet.

  Turistas (2006)

• The Brazilian gave me this to give to you.

  The Lost City of Z (2017)

• So I am Brazilian, I'm fairly new in the business.

• I'm one of the Brazilian people that stood here.

• The two women, one Ghanaian, one Brazilian, wore the blue berets of UN resource allocation officers.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Brazilians love Disney.

  The Florida Project (2017)

• By the time of the 1989 presidential elections, Brazilians were demanding an outsider who would revamp the country's politics.

  Academic text (1998)

• Many middle-class Brazilians felt insecure, unprotected, and threatened by these newly empowered children.

  Academic text (1997)

• During the festival, we met several Brazilians who were excited to showcase their traditional dances.

Compounds

B

Brazilian pepper tree

1 8.2

A small evergreen tree or shrub that people often grow for decoration

B

Brazilian guava

8.1

A South American tree that produces fragrant yellow fruit like common guava

B

Brazilian ironwood

9.9

A tree from Brazil without thorns that has very heavy, dense wood

B

Brazilian trumpeter

9.6

A bird from Brazil and Guiana that makes a loud long call and guards chickens

B

Brazilian potato tree

9.1

A South American bush or small tree with purple flowers that is not a true potato

B

Brazilian rosewood

8.4

A large Brazilian tree with hard dark wood used for furniture and guitars

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Etymology