Pernambuco

[ pur-nuhm-byoo-koh, -boo-; Portuguese per-nahm-boo-koo ]

/ ˌpɜr nəmˈbyu koʊ, -ˈbu-; Portuguese ˌpɛr nɑmˈbu kʊ /

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noun

a state in northeastern Brazil. 38,000 sq. mi. (98,420 sq. km). Capital: Recife.

former name of Recife.

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How to use Pernambuco in a sentence

Luciana Lira, a medical anthropologist at the Federal University of Pernambuco, recalls accompanying two mothers to an event in 2018 in Recife, in Pernambuco state, one of the epicenters of the congenital Zika syndrome outbreak.
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Pernambuco had during the half century which had elapsed since the expulsion of the Dutch had time to recruit.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
Meantime the discontents in the northern provinces had broken out into open insurrection, in the captaincy of Pernambuco.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
There is not one bookseller in Pernambuco, and the population of its different parishes amounts to 70,000 souls!
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham

It was a more pleasant, polished evening than I had expected to pass in Pernambuco, especially now in a state of siege.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham
We leave Pernambuco, with a firm persuasion that this part of Brazil at least will never again tamely submit to Portugal.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil|Maria Graham

British Dictionary definitions for Pernambuco

Pernambuco

/ (ˌpɜːnəmˈbjuːkəʊ, Portuguese pernəmˈbuku) /

noun

a state of NE Brazil, on the Atlantic: consists of a humid coastal plain rising to a high inland plateau. Capital: Recife. Pop: 8 084 667 (2002). Area: 98 280 sq km (37 946 sq miles)

the former name of Recife

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