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Meaning of saudade | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
sawˈdade

Definitions

wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, yearning, longing; the feeling of missing something or someone

feminine

Equivalents

English Gloom Longing

Examples

“Quando aquel Ihesus, meu señor, ya por la terras preegar, eu avia de moy grãde amor et soydade de veer a sua façe et quigi mãdar pintar a semelança do seu rrostro, que era a mays fremosa criatura do mũdo, en hũu pano por fillar cõ ela prazer et cõforto quando o vise; et querendoo fazer cõteyllo todo, et el pediome o pano et posoo ẽna sua cara et doumo encayado cõ tal figura cal era o seu santo rrostro;”

When that Jesus, my Lord, was going about the lands preaching, I had, because of how big was my love, longing for seeing His face; and I wanted to order a paint after His face, which was the most beautiful creation in the world, in a cloth, for having joy and confort whenever I saw it; and wanting to do it I told him, and He asked me for the cloth, put it on His face and gave it back to me stuck with a figure that was no other than His holy face;

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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