Polyglot Dictionary

prisão

/pɾiˈzɐ̃w/

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 prisões

Meaning

  1. prison

    • Ele foi para a prisão.

      He went to prison.

N Category Place Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

presídio

presídio specifically means a penitentiary or high-security prison; prisão is more general, any prison, or can also mean "arrest" itself.

Similar in other languages

German

Gefängnis

Gefängnis is the German word for the same thing — both mean "prison."

Spanish

cárcel

cárcel is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "prison."

Spanish

presidio

presidio is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "prison."

Practice

1 What does prisão mean?

2 Fill the gap: Ele foi para a ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches prisão?

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