Tagus
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- proper noun
- After a heavy storm forced another ship from the fleet aground, the captain decided to head for the mouth of the Tagus River, hoping to escape the tempest in the calmer waters of the estuary.
- Tagus River
- mouth of the Tagus
Examples
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Creating Mar Portugues on the Tagus River along the ancient maritime site of Lisbon's Terreiro do Paco was a journey into the city's multiple historic pasts.
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Draped lightly over the green hills above the wide Tagus River, Lisbon enjoys the loveliest of natural settings.
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There, between cell bars and the armpits of guards, they watched the Tagus River rise and fall against the stone wall.
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Or how she had never really noticed the spectacle of the ships entering and leaving the mouth of the Tagus.
Fiction book (1995) -
Spidery ships plodded along the Tagus.
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He flies toward the Tagus River, the brown land below turning green; in the distance, the Mediterranean and the city of Alverca.
Fiction book (1990) -
I gaze west of Lisbon at Belem, across the Tagus and its Atlantic estuary.
Academic text (2008) -
PHOTO (COLOR): The sixteenth-century Sao Juliao da Barra fortress guards the mouth of the Tagus River, the entry point to Lisbon Harbor.
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I gaze west of Lisbon at Belem, across the Tagus and its Atlantic estuary.
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In May 1650, the prince sailed down the Tagus River, heading for the open sea and straight into Blake's waiting fleet.
Synonyms
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The longest river in Spain and Portugal that flows into the Atlantic Ocean
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tagus is an ancient name the Romans and Greeks used for the big 'river' in Spain and Portugal; you can still hear it today in Spanish as Tajo and in Portuguese as Tejo, so the same old name has followed the river all the way to the sea.