English Explanatory Dictionary

aldeia

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción

Word forms

aldeia aldeias

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese aldeia. Doublet of aldea

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