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| noun | 1. A feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament. |
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 | | "On the first warm day of every year, Elena is overwhelmed with saudade for her childhood home in Brazil." | | "The Portuguese musical genre fado combines acoustic guitar with soaring, melancholy vocals full of saudade." | | "My Brazilian grandmother told me she wasn't sad, she was saudade." |
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 | | Portuguese, early 20th century |
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 | | There's no English equivalent for "saudade," a loanword from Portuguese that describes a feeling of melancholic longing and missing something or someone. Both Portuguese and Portuguese-speaking Brazilian cultures have the reputation of being full of sad emotions or nostalgic longings for things and people long past. ... |  |
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