senhora
/sɛnˈjɔːrə
/noun
(In Portuguese-speaking countries) a woman, especially a married woman (often used as a title or polite form of address): I look forward to hearing what Senhora Rocha decides...
- I think your photographs are going to come out nicely, minha senhora.
- ‘She called you uma bomba,’ he replies, smiling. ‘It means that she thinks you're a babe. She thinks you're very beautiful, senhora.’
- There is a lovely saying in Portuguese when the grapes change colour, which they do from one day to the next in the Douro Valley: ‘oh my, senhora, the painter came last night’.
Origin
Portuguese, feminine of senhor.
Rhymes
- Nicodemism
- Nicodemite
- Nicolaitan
- Nicolaitane
- Nicolaitanism
- Nicolaite
- Nicolaitism
- Nicollet, Joseph Nicolas
- Nicol prism
- Niconian
- nicorandil
- Nicorette
- Nicosia
- nicotian
- nicotiana
- nicotic acid
- nicotinamide
- nicotinate
- nicotine
- nicotinean
- nicotined
- nicotine-like
- nicotine patch
- nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
- nicotinic acid