Portuguese - the Romance language spoken in Portugal and Brazil

Common Market, EC, EEC, European Community, European Economic Community, European Union, EU, Europe - an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members; "he took Britain into Europe"

NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization - an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security

European country, European nation - countries occupying the European continent

Iberia, Iberian Peninsula - a peninsula in southwestern Europe

Acores, Azores - islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal; "the Azores are strategically located on transatlantic air and shipping routes"

Madeira Islands - a group of volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean west of Morocco

Braga - an ancient city in northern Portugal

capital of Portugal, Lisboa, Lisbon - capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic

Oporto, Porto - port city in northwest Portugal; noted for port wine

Setubal - a port city on the Atlantic coast of Portugal southeast of Lisbon

Latin America - the parts of North and South America south of the United States where Romance languages are spoken

Lusitania - ancient region and Roman province of the Iberian peninsula; corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and parts of Spain

Europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles

Tagus, Tagus River - a European river; flows into the North Atlantic

Portuguese - a native or inhabitant of Portugal

duenna - a woman chaperon

Grand Inquisitor - director of the court of Inquisition (especially in Spain and Portugal)