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🏙️ A Brazilian city ✈️ Aerospace industry
Sao Jose dos Campos

Sao Jose dos Campos

5.0
A city in southeast Brazil northeast of São Paulo
  • proper noun
translation icon : Sao Jose dos Campos
  • During my trip to Brazil, I spent a weekend exploring Sao Jose dos Campos and its surroundings.

Examples

  • Many students travel to Sao Jose dos Campos to attend its renowned technological institutes.

  • The aerospace industry has brought growth and innovation to Sao Jose dos Campos over the past decades.

  • I am traveling to Sao Jose dos Campos next month.

  • Have you ever visited Sao Jose dos Campos?

  • During my trip to Brazil, I spent a weekend exploring Sao Jose dos Campos and its surroundings.

  • Many students travel to Sao Jose dos Campos to attend its renowned technological institutes.

  • The aerospace industry has brought growth and innovation to Sao Jose dos Campos over the past decades.

Surface Forms

Sao Jose dos Campos main

Morphology

Sao + Jose + dos + Campos

This is a place name used metonymically to refer to a specific aerospace industry cluster; the literal constituents (São, José, dos, Campos) are personal/geographic elements and do not encode 'aerospace industry'. A B1 learner who knows the component words would not be able to derive the specialized metonymic meaning without extra world knowledge, so the expression is not compositionally transparent.

Etymology

Sao Jose dos Campos comes from the old name parts Sao Jose meaning 'Saint Joseph' and dos Campos meaning 'of the fields', because the town began in open fields. So the name simply refers to that city today.