Sao Paulo
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- proper noun
- /saʊ ˈpaʊloʊ/
- As we can see from the map below, there are gateball courts in most parts of Sao Paulo with significant numbers of Japanese Brazilian residents, including the less affluent eastern and northern districts, as well as the wealthier southern and western ones.
- Sao Paulo, Brazil
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And they engage in the talk of crime widespread among other residents of Sao Paulo (Paulistanos).
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But will it be in Austin this weekend, or will we be forced to wait until the Brazilian Grand Prix in Sao Paulo before we have our answer?
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For Sao Paulo, a city of 20 million, this has become a crisis.
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I'll see you back in Sao Paulo.
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Sao Paulo is where all the work gets done.
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The setup in Sao Paulo will be similar to Beijing.
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People in Sao Paulo are heavy information consumers who already have a steady stream of choices for news, he said.
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"Like Sulzberger said yesterday in Sao Paulo, Brazil is the place to invest at the moment."
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We're seeing tensions between Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro because Rio needs the water to produce the energy, but Sao Paulo needs the water for the people, and they're fighting where to put the water like how to use the water, it is something that we couldn't imagine 10 years ago.
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For Sao Paulo, a city of 20 million, this has become a crisis.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Sao + Paulo
The name is a toponym formed from Portuguese elements meaning 'Saint Paul', so a learner who knows the constituents could infer it is a place/name (partial compositional information). However, the literal parts do not convey the full encyclopedic meaning (that it is a very large, ultramodern city in southeastern Brazil and the largest city in South America), and the constituents are non-English, so the overall meaning is not fully derivable from the parts.
Etymology
Sao Paulo: The place name Sao Paulo comes from Portuguese priests who set up a small mission on the day that honors Saint Paul, so they called the settlement 'Saint Paul'. That's why the name really means 'Saint Paul' and today it is the name of Brazil's large, modern city.