dimensão
Portuguese, noun/d͡ʒi.mẽˈsɐ̃w̃/
dimensão is spelled D-I-M-E-N-S-Ã-O (8 letters) and appears 21 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 3,969th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Dimensão is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “dimension (measure of spatial extent in a particular direction)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “extensão suscetível de medida”.
What does dimensão mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedimension (measure of spatial extent in a particular direction)
- 2
femininedimension; aspect (any specific feature, part or element of something)
- 3
femininesize; extent; scope (how big or extensive something is)
- 4
feminineimportance; significance; prominence
- 5
femininedimension (number of elements of any basis of a vector space)
- 6
femininedimension (a parallel plane of existence)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. extensão suscetível de medida. 2. tamanho, volume. 3. grandeza, importância.
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 dimensão
- dimensões plural
- dimensaõ alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dimensão?
- Brazil /d͡ʒi.mẽˈsɐ̃w̃/
- Brazil [d͡ʒi.mẽˈsɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
- Portugal /di.mẽˈsɐ̃w̃/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dimensão
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dimensão in Portuguese?
dimensão appears 21 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).