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Definition: Praia |
PraiaNoun1. The capital of Cape Verde on Sao Tiago Island. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Praia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Geography | Capital of Cape Verde. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Praia, population 61,644 (1990), is the capital of Cape Verde. The city is located Santiago Island, west of Dakar, Senegal. It is Cape Verde's largest city, and a commercial center and a port that ships coffee, sugar cane, and tropical fruits. Praia also has a fishing industry.There are resort beaches nearby, and an airport just west of the city.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Praia, Cape Verde."
Synonym: PraiaSynonym: capital of Cape Verde (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Praia |
| Non-English Usage: "Praia" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Portuguese (beach, coast, Praia, sand, shore, strand, watering-place, waterside). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Paixão Na Praia (1971) Maria da Praia (1951) Praia das Rosas Miramar (1938) Pesca da Sardinha na Praia Furadouro (1936) A Praia da Rocha (1935) | |
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| "Praia Brasil 1" by Marcelo Dos Santos Commentary: "Parati/RJ, Ubatuba/SP. Photos shoot from my Canon Digital Camera A40. Brazil, 2003/Jan." |
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Economic History | Cape Verde | Sir Francis Drake sacked Ribeira Grande in 1585. After a French attack in 1712, the city declined in importance relative to Praia, which became the capital in 1770. (references) |
Cape Verde | The national television also has special agreements with French and Portuguese channels which allow them to be broadcast in Cape Verde . There is a state-owned radio station with headquarters in Praia, the capital, and two private ones. (references) | |
Cape Verde | Ports: There are two deep waters ports - Porto Grande, in Mindelo, Sao Vicente and the Port of Praia, in the capital city - serving international traffic. (references) | |
Trade | Cape Verde | Two Portuguese banks Totta & Açores, and Caixa Geral de Depósitos have opened a branch in Praia, while the Banco Nacional Ultramarino (BNU) and Banco Mello have opened a representational offices that may lead to full branches. (references) |
Travel | Cape Verde | Sanitation is fair in Mindelo and Praia. (references) |
Cape Verde | A satellite earth station in Praia links Cape Verde with the rest of the world. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cape Verde | Praia has a 30-acre export processing zone (EPZ), which houses two Portuguese companies and a Cape Verdean-Sengalese joint venture. (references) |
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| "Praia" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Praia" is used about 22 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% | 22 | 74,468 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| Portugal | Sociedade Figueira Praia S.A. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "Praia": Cidade de Praia. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
da praia rocha | 51 | pinho praia | 8 |
cape praia verde | 50 | clube praia da oura | 8 |
praia do forte | 32 | praia brazil | 7 |
capital praia | 32 | canasvieiras praia | 7 |
grande praia | 31 | mole praia | 7 |
praia | 22 | na nuas praia | 7 |
de nudismo praia | 21 | praia rosa | 7 |
moda praia | 17 | na praia | 7 |
praia da luz | 16 | garotas na praia | 7 |
da oura praia | 12 | casa na praia | 6 |
de mira praia | 12 | gatas na praia | 6 |
da hotel praia rocha | 12 | fotos na praia | 6 |
de praia tambaba | 12 | futuro praia | 6 |
de praia volei | 11 | guincho praia | 6 |
nudismo praia | 9 | praia tambaba | 6 |
brazil da pipa praia | 9 | capital.com praia | 6 |
na praia sexo | 9 | amadoras na praia | 6 |
da pipa praia | 9 | deserta praia | 6 |
praia de rocha | 9 | praia vau | 5 |
meco praia | 9 | dos ingleses praia | 5 |
de pipa praia | 5 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "Praia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Praia. (various references) | |
Dutch | Praia. (various references) | |
Finnish | Praia. (various references) | |
French | Praia. (various references) | |
German | Praia. (various references) | |
Greek | Πράγια. (various references) | |
Italian | Praia. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aiapray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Praia (beach, coast, sand, shore, strand, watering-place, waterside). (various references) | |
Spanish | Praia. (various references) | |
Swedish | Praia. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Praia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Paiba, Parciau, Pareja, Paria, Perahia, Pernaja, Phraxiot, Piara, Praaaaam, Praca, Prai, praik, Praja, Prakit, Pramila, Prasina, Pratima, praxia, praya, Prayut, Rpgii. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-p-r" | |
-1 letter: aria, pair, para, raia. | |
-2 letters: air, par, pia, rap, ria, rip. | |
-3 letters: aa, ai, ar, pa, pi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-p-r" | |
+1 letter: apiary, pariah, parian, picara, pirana, piraya, raphia. | |
+2 letters: airpark, airplay, apraxia, apraxic, apteria, charpai, haircap, ovipara, palikar, paprica, paprika, pareira, parfait, pariahs, parians, partial, partita, picaras, piragua, piranas, piranha, pirayas, puparia, raphias, spiraea. | |
+3 letters: agraphia, agraphic, agrypnia, airparks, airplane, airplays, airscape, airspace, antirape, apiarian, apiaries, apiarist, appraise, apractic, apraxias, arapaima, aspirant, aspirata, aspirate, atrophia, brainpan, cantraip, carpalia, charpais, diagraph, diaspora, haircaps, lapidary, mariposa, marsupia, marzipan, pagurian, paillard, palikars, papillar, papricas, paprikas, papyrian, paradigm, parading, paradise, paraffin, parakite, paranoia, paranoic, paranoid, parasite, parawing, pareiras, parfaits, parhelia, parietal, partials, partisan, partitas, partizan, pastrami, pearmain, piacular, piraguas, piranhas, plagiary, planaria, praedial, prandial, preaxial, priapean, primatal, puparial, rapacity, riparian, sapremia, septaria, spiraeas, trapezia, vivipara. | |
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