Polyglot Dictionary

delegacia

/delegaˈsiɐ/

a noun B1

o (masc.) a (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
as delegacias

Meaning

  1. police station

    • Fui à delegacia.

      I went to the police station.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

esquadra

delegacia and esquadra are close synonyms for "police station"; esquadra also separately means "fleet," naval.

Similar in other languages

German

Polizeirevier

Polizeirevier is the German word for the same thing — both mean "police station."

German

Polizeiwache

Polizeiwache is the German word for the same thing — both mean "police station."

Spanish

comisaría

comisaría is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "police station."

Practice

1 What does delegacia mean?

2 Fill the gap: Fui à ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches delegacia?

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