Tagus

[ tey-guhs ]

noun

1. a river in southwestern Europe, flowing west through central Spain and Portugal to the Atlantic Ocean at Lisbon. 566 miles (910 kilometers) long.

Tagus

/ ˈteɪɡəs /

noun

1. a river in SW Europe, rising in E central Spain and flowing west to the border with Portugal, then southwest to the Atlantic at Lisbon: the longest river of the Iberian Peninsula. Length: 1007 km (626 miles) Portuguese nameTejo Spanish nameTajo

Example Sentences

A consequence of this "happy result" is that we have now six sail of the line in the Tagus.

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His first object, he had been already told, should be to capture the fleet lying in the Tagus and to take the regent prisoner.

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Portugal, though nominally an ally, contributed to the common cause nothing but the use of the Tagus by the British Navy.

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It was now the middle of August, and the heat in the valley of the Tagus was overpowering.

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As it was, we had just time to cross the Tagus before they were ready to fall upon us.

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