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Santos

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San·tos  (snts, säts)
A city of southeast Brazil on an offshore island in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of São Paulo. Settled in the 1540s, it is a major port, especially for coffee. Population: 416,000.
Santos (Portuguese) [ˈsəntuʃ]
n
(Placename) a port in S Brazil, in São Paulo state: the world's leading coffee port. Pop.: 415 553 (2000)
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Noun1.Santos - a port city in southwestern Brazil on an offshore island near Sao PauloSantos - a port city in southwestern Brazil on an offshore island near Sao Paulo
Brasil, Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil - the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter
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He was a Portuguese of sixty or thereabouts, Senhor Joaquin Santos by name; at first it was incredible to me that he had no title, so noble was his bearing; but very soon I realized that he was one of those to whom adventitious honors can add no lustre.
Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. View in context
We had a very good voyage to the Brazils, and I arrived in the Bay de Todos los Santos, or All Saints' Bay, in about twenty-two days after.
Robinson Crusoe by Defoe, Daniel View in context
 
 
 
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