Roraima

/ (Portuguese rɔˈraima) /


noun
  1. a state of N Brazil: chiefly rainforest Capital: Boa Vista. Pop: 346 871 (2002). Area: 230 104 sq km (89 740 sq miles)

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How to use Roraima in a sentence

  • Since then Roraima has been visited by two or three other travellers; but their accounts have added little to our knowledge.

  • Indeed, the mountain of Roraima and all its surroundings are looked upon as weird and uncanny.

  • These are undoubtedly the ‘white eagles’ that are asserted by the Indians to be the ‘guardians of the lake’ on the top of Roraima.

  • Only when they came to the ridge from which the first view of Roraima is to be obtained did any of the party exhibit curiosity.

  • And so, as Roraima frowned upon them, they frowned back, and returned in kind its gloomy and unfriendly greeting.