CAPITAL OF PORTUGAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital of Portugal mean? 

• CAPITAL OF PORTUGAL (noun)
  The noun CAPITAL OF PORTUGAL has 1 sense:

1. capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic

  Familiarity information: CAPITAL OF PORTUGAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITAL OF PORTUGAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of Portugal; Lisboa; Lisbon

Instance hypernyms:

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "capital of Portugal"):

Ponte 25 de Abril (a suspension bridge across the Tagus River at Lisbon)

Holonyms ("capital of Portugal" is a part of...):

Portugal; Portuguese Republic (a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil))