Lisboa

Definition: Lisboa

Lisboa

Noun

1. 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.

Specialty Definition: Lisbon

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

''(This article is about the capital city of Portugal. For other uses, see Lisbon (disambiguation).)

Lisbon (in Portuguese, Lisboa) is the capital city of Portugal.

Geography
Lisbon is located in the west of the country, on the Atlantic coast, where the Tagus river (Portuguese Tejo), flows in the ocean. The city occupies an area of 84.6 km². The city comprises 53 freguesias.
Demographics
The population of the city is 564,657, according to the 2001 census. The population density is 6,606.9 inhabitants per km².

Highlights
The heart of the city is the Baixa or lower town, location of the São Jorge Castle and the Santa Maria Maior Cathedral. The oldest district of the city is Alfama, close to the Tejo.
Other monuments include:
Belém Tower
Jerónimos Monastery

Panoramic view of Lisbon from Miradouro da Santa Lucia with Mosteiro de São Vicente
on the left and St Michael's church in the Alfama on the far right. (large version)

History
Lisbon has been the capital of Portugal since 1260 and reached its peak of prosperity during the period of the Portuguese Empire in the 16th century.
On January 26, 1531, the city was hit by an earthquake which killed thousands.
On November 1, 1755, Lisbon was destroyed by another earthquake, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, which killed 90,000 and destroyed eighty-five percent of the city. [1] Voltaire mentioned it in his 1759 novel Candide, and Oliver Wendell Holmes (the elder) mentioned it in his 1857 poem, The Deacon's Masterpiece, or The Wonderful One-Hoss Shay.

Economy
Major industries in Lisbon include steel, textiles, chemicals, pottery, shipbuilding and fishing.

Miscellaneous
Expo '98 was held in Lisbon.
People born in Lisbon include:
Anthony of Padua (1195)
Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), queen consort of King Charles II of England
Richard William Church (1815-1890)
Fernando Pessoa (1888)
Paula Rego (born 1935), painter, illustrator and printmaker
Rita Guerra (born 1967), singer
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lisbon."

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Synonym: Lisboa

Synonym: capital of Portugal (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Lisboa

Specialty definitions using "Lisboa": Lisbo'a. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Lisboa" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (lisbon), Portuguese Brazilian (Lisbon), Spanish (Lisbon).

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Modern Usage: Lisboa

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Lisboa É Sempre Lisboa (1970)

Amanhecer em Lisboa (1965)

História de Lisboa (1965)

Misión Lisboa (1965)

Turistas em Lisboa (1964)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lisboa

Domain	Title
Books	Flora da Estufa Fria de Lisboa (reference) Prâedios e vilas de Lisboa (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Churumbeles De España Vol. Iii Exitos De Los, Cariño Verdad - Doce Cascabeles, Lisboa Antigua (reference) Lisboa Gare By Yen Sung (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lisboa

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Photo Album: Lisboa

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Conferencia da area urbana de Lisboa, 5 de novembro : pelo 25 de abril do povo! : na unidade popular em defesa das conquistas de abril : em frente com o 3 congresso. Credit: Library of Congress.		Congresso dos Sindicatos : dias 25, 26, 27, Lisboa : sessao publica de encerramento, dia 27-17h Campo Pequeno. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Lisboa


"Fado in lisboa" by Sandro Petri Commentary: "Fado vadio in rua garret, chado, lisboa."	"Arco de Lisboa" by Djalma Patricio Commentary: "Lisboa, Portugal."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lisboa

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Portugal	In Portugal there are a number of annual specialized international trade shows at the Feira Internacional de Lisboa (FIL) at the Expo 98 site and at the EXPONOR trade center near Porto. (references)
	Portugal	Although the Lisbon stock market (Bolsa de Valores Lisboa or BVL) is one of the smaller markets in Europe, and has fallen by about a third from its March 2000 peak, total capitalization has grown rapidly (from 29% of GDP in 1987 to around 100% of GDP currently). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Lisboa

"Lisboa" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lisboa" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	16	87,710

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Lisboa

The following table summarizes the usage of "Lisboa" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Lisboa	Last name	170	46,562
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lisboa

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
coutinho gago lisboa portugal	561	benfica lisboa sport	13
lisboa	449	de feira internacional lisboa	13
lisboa mel	342	camera lisboa municipal	12
camera de lisboa municipal	88	desnuda lisboa mel	12
de lisboa patriarcado	72	concelhos de limitrofes lisboa	12
lisboa parade	38	câmara de lisboa municipal	11
de lisboa mapa	37	direito faculdade lisboa	10
de em informatica lisboa loja	34	antonio de lisboa santo	10
lisboa mapa	32	lisboa map	10
sport lisboa e benfica	32	bolsa de de lisboa valores	10
lisboa portugal	30	lisboa mapas	10
de de direito faculdade lisboa	27	lisboa mel nude	10
lisboa hotel	24	camera de discoteca lisboa numa	9
de lisboa urbana zona	21	de feira lisboa livro	9
de lisboa nova universidade	20	hoteis lisboa	8
de lisboa universidade	20	aeroporto lisboa	8
fotos lisboa mel	20	de lisboa porto	8
area lisboa metropolitana	15	de lisboa metropolitano	8
aeroporto de lisboa	14	lisboa zoo	8
de fotos lisboa mel	13	lisboa turismo	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Lisboa

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-i-l-o-s"
	-1 letter: aboil, bails, basil, boils, bolas, obias.
	-2 letters: abos, ails, albs, also, bail, bals, bias, bios, boas, boil, bola, isba, labs, libs, lobs, obia, obis, oils, sail, sial, silo, slab, slob, soil, sola, soli.
	-3 letters: abo, abs, ail, ais, alb, als, bal, bas, bio, bis, boa, bos, lab, las, lib, lis, lob, obi, oil.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-i-l-o-s"
	+1 letter: abolish, albinos, bailors, bilboas, kolbasi, obelias, oblasti.
	+2 letters: aboulias, bailouts, basophil, bifocals, bioplasm, bobtails, bolivars, bolivias, cabildos, coalbins, diabolos, garboils, hobnails, isolable, kilobars, kilobase, kolbasis, kolbassi, labroids, lobelias, mislabor, orbitals, parboils, sailboat, sociable, sociably, strobila, tabloids, taboulis.
	+3 letters: ablations, ablutions, abolished, abolisher, abolishes, absolving, abutilons, albicores, ambrosial, anabolism, balconies, basophile, basophils, biathlons, bicoastal, binomials, bioplasms, biosocial, bloviates, boatbills, bolivares, boltonias, braciolas, bracioles, cabrioles, carbinols, carbolics, cimbaloms, diabolism, diabolist, forbidals, globalise, globalism, globalist, idioblast, isallobar, kilobases, kilobauds, kolbassis, laborious, laborites, libations, lifeboats, lobations, mailbombs, mailboxes, mislabors, oblations, obligates, obligatos, olibanums, panbroils, ribosomal, sailboard, sailboats, shambolic, sociables, spoilable, strobilae, sublation, subsocial, tailbones.
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