adorar
Portuguese, verb/a.doˈɾa(ʁ)/
adorar is spelled A-D-O-R-A-R (6 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 6,626th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adorar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to love (to have a great admiration or affection for something or someone)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “amar; gostar muito”.
What does adorar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to love (to have a great admiration or affection for something or someone)
Eu adoro artes clássicas!
- 2
to adore, worship
Os gregos adoravam a deusa Atena.
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. amar; gostar muito 2. venerar uma divindade
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adorar
- adoro first-person present singular
- adorei first-person preterite singular
- adorado participle past
- adorares infinitive second-person singular
- adorarmos first-person infinitive plural
- adorardes infinitive plural second-person
- adorarem infinitive plural third-person
- adorando gerund
- adorados masculine participle past
- adorada feminine participle past
- adoradas feminine participle past
- adoras indicative present second-person
- adora indicative present singular
- adoramos first-person indicative plural
- adorais indicative plural present
- adoram indicative plural present
- adorava first-person imperfect indicative
- adoravas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adorar?
- Brazil /a.doˈɾa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [a.doˈɾa(h)]
- /a.doˈɾa(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adorar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adorar in Portuguese?
adorar appears 11 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).