Pôrto Alegre

American  

[pawr-too ah-le-gruh] / ˈpɔr tʊ ɑˈlɛ grə /

noun

1. a seaport in S Brazil.

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Porto Alegre British  

/ ˈportu aˈlɛɡri /

noun

1. a port in S Brazil, capital of the Rio Grande do Sul state: the country's chief inland port; the chief commercial centre of S Brazil, with two universities (1936 and 1948). Pop: 3 795 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Only a couple of Argentina’s giants have anything like the revenues of the powerhouses from Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Pôrto Alegre and Belo Horizonte.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

The difference, this time, was that Zanotta was taking those calls not in São Paulo or Pôrto Alegre, but Dallas.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2021

Mr. de Azambuja, who was born in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, and works in Madrid, uses industrial steel clamps and construction materials in their raw form to build sculptures evocative of Brutalist architecture.

From New York Times • Jul. 11, 2018

In 2012, two handfuls of grass sprigs were shipped down from Texas to an off-site turf farm in Pôrto Alegre, Brazil, where it was grown and tended by Marcelo Matte of Green Grass Brasil.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2016