senhora

American  

[sin-yawr-uh, -yohr-uh, si-nyaw-ruh] / sɪnˈjɔr ə, -ˈjoʊr ə, sɪˈnjɔ rə /

noun

• senhoras
  plural

1. a Portuguese term of address equivalent to Mrs., used alone or capitalized and prefixed to the name of a married or older woman. Sra.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• senhoras
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of senhora

1795–1805; < Portuguese, feminine of senhor

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Example Sentences

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senhora senhoras

The senhora of the house told her to wait.

From Time Magazine Archive

Theresa, daughter of the mud huts under the palm trees, ama in the sobrado of the foreign senhora, is a royal queen of story land.

From Fairy Tales from Brazil How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore by Elsie Spicer Eells

It certainly was good, and the senhora drank it with avidity, the mixture being excellent diet for one who had eaten nothing except an over-ripe banana during thirty hours.

From The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy

"And the senhora, Fred; how goes your fortune in that quarter?"

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

The old senhora told me a sad story of the brutality exercised in recruiting the Indians.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various

The senhoras were all dressed after the French fashion: corset, fichu, garniture, all was proper, and even elegant, and there was a great display of jewels.

From Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Maria Graham

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