Meaning of Madeira | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous region of Portugal.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Madeira (“fortified wine”).
   alt-of, countable, uncountable
3. A type of fortified wine produced on that island.
   countable, uncountable
4. The largest island in the Madeira Archipelago; in full, Madeira Island.
5. The largest tributary of the Amazon, running 900 miles from Pando Department, Bolivia through the states of Rondônia and Amazonas, Brazil to its mouth east of Manaus; in full, Madeira River.
6. A city in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cincinnati named after landowner John Madeira.
7. A surname.

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Examples

“Add to this, Madeira which had twice ripened beneath eastern suns—once in the grape, and once in the wood; and Port whose filmy robe of cobweb had, as old Adrian boasted, outlasted many a silken dress.”

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