The Portuguese word for ground is
chão
Gender
The gender of chão is masculine. E.g. o chão.Plural
The plural of chão is chãos.Portuguese Definition
| ground | |
| 1. Adjetivo. moído | |
| ground coffee. (café moído) | |
| 2. Substantivo. chão, superfície | |
| 3. Substantivo. (Eletricidade) terra | |
| 4. Verbo. (Eletricidade) aterrar | |
| 5. Verbo. justificar | |
| 6. Verbo. (Informal) punir alguém | |
| 7. Verbo. não deixar um avião partir | |
| 8. Forma verbal. passado e particípio passado do verbo to grind |
Translations for ground and their definitions
| chão | |
| 1. n-m. ground, soil, earth | |
| 2. n-m. floor | |
| Não deixe cair nada no chão. - Don't let anything fall to the floor. | |
| 3. n-m. (poetic) land | |
| Este é o nosso chão. - This is our land. | |
| 4. n-m. (geography, obsolete) plain | |
| 5. n-m. (Brazil, informal) a period of time between the present and a future event | |
| Ainda tem um chão até o dia de eu me mudar. - There is still some time until the day I will move. | |
| 6. adj. flat, level, even, smooth |
| aterrar | |
| 1. v. to land | |
| 2. v. to dock | |
| 3. v. to fill or cover with earth | |
| 4. v. to raise (a field) with earth or rubble | |
| 5. v. to ground | |
| 6. v. to knock down | |
| 7. v. to burrow (of an animal) | |
| 8. v. to fall down, to fall to earth | |
| 9. v. to terrorize |
| fundo | |
| 1. adj. deep (having its bottom far down) | |
| 2. n-m. bottom | |
| 3. n-m. background (a part of the picture that depicts scenery to the rear or behind the main subject) | |
| 4. n-m. fund | |
| 5. n-m. (finance, insurance) capital (money and wealth) | |
| 6. n-m. (sports) long-distance | |
| 7. v. verb form of fundar | |
| fundo uma instituição - I am founding an institution | |
| 8. v. verb form of fundir | |
| fundo ouro - I am smelting gold |
| fundamento | |
| 1. n-m. foundation (that upon which anything is founded) | |
| 2. n-m. the act of founding, establishing | |
| 3. v. verb form of fundamentar |
| campo | |
| 1. n-m. country; countryside | |
| (cot, cidade, mar) | |
| O campo é tranquilo - The countryside is peaceful | |
| Uma casa no campo. - A house in the countryside. | |
| 2. n-m. field (large open area, especially one where crops are grown or sports are played) | |
| 3. n-m. field (domain of knowledge or practice) | |
| 4. n-m. (physics) field | |
| campo magnético - magnetic field |
| solo | |
| 1. n-m. (geology) soil, ground | |
| 2. n-m. (music) solo (a piece of music for one performer) | |
| 3. v. verb form of solar |
| Terra | |
| 1. Proper noun. Earth | |
| 2. n-f. land; region; territory (area associated with something) | |
| Cuidado, essa é a terra dos caçadores de cabeças. - Be careful, that is the land of the headhunters. | |
| 3. n-f. ground (the surface of the Earth outside buildings) | |
| Deixa essa pedra na terra. - Leave that rock on the ground. | |
| 4. n-f. land; property (partitioned and measurable area owned by someone) | |
| Compramos uma terra para criar gado. - We bought land to raise cattle. | |
| 5. n-f. (sailing) land; dry land; ground (places outside a body of water) | |
| Após meses de viagem, finalmente chegaram em terra. - After months of travel, they finally arrived on land. | |
| 6. n-f. earth; soil (mixture of sand and organic material found on the ground) | |
| A camisa está suja de terra. - The shirt is dirty with soil. | |
| 7. n-f. land; homeland | |
| Lá na minha terra tem muitas capivaras. - There are a lot of capybaras in my homeland. | |
| 8. Proper noun. alternative case form of Terra | |
| 9. v. verb form of terrar |
| castigar | |
| 1. v. to punish, to castigate (to cause to suffer for crime or misconduct) |
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