Citations:Portuguese

Adjective: of or pertaining to the Portuguese language

 * 1981, Milton Mariano Azevedo, A Contrastive Phonology of Portuguese and English, page 31
 * The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.
 * The latter feature indicates that a Portuguese consonant cannot constitute the nucleus of a syllable.

Adjective: of or pertaining to Portugal

 * 1973, Roger Parkinson, The Peninsular War, page 104
 * The British army had already moved over the border and the commander had established his HQ high in the central Portuguese mountains at Viseu.

Adjective: pertaining to the people or culture of Portugal

 * 1887, George Brown Goode, The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, section IV, page 33
 * In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.
 * In San Diego County there is but one Portuguese fisherman, as is also the case in Los Angeles, the county immediately adjoining.

Noun: native or inhabitant of Portugal

 * 1920, Paulus Edward Pieris, Ceylon and the Portuguese, 1505-1658, page 184
 * With a view to securing its more efficient working, a Portuguese was placed in charge of the entire department as Vidane.
 * 2000, René Chartrand & Bill Younghusband, The Portuguese Army of the Napoleonic Wars, volume 1, page 23
 * Beresford required all materials for coatees, waistcoats and pantaloons to be sent out unmade, as the Portuguese were perfectly capable of making the suits up properly after delivery.
 * 2000, Ethnologia Europaea 30 (2): 52
 * The Portuguese claim that a Galician would never be generous, as a Portuguese would. On their side, the Galicians tell the story of the Portuguese who invites some Galicians to dinner and then gives his guests very little to eat.
 * The Portuguese claim that a Galician would never be generous, as a Portuguese would. On their side, the Galicians tell the story of the Portuguese who invites some Galicians to dinner and then gives his guests very little to eat.