Polyglot Dictionary

porão

/poˈɾɐ̃w/

o noun B2

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
os porões

Meaning

  1. basement

    Also means a ship's cargo hold, a completely different sense from a house's basement.

    • Desci ao porão.

      I went down to the basement.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

adega

An adega is specifically a wine cellar, built or used for storing wine; a porão is any basement or underground room.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

sótano

sótano is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "basement."

French

sous-sol

sous-sol is the French word for the same thing — both mean "basement."

Practice

1 What does porão mean?

2 Fill the gap: Desci ao ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches porão?

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