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hobby

Portuguese, noun/ˈʁɔ.bi/

hobby is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “hobby (an activity that one enjoys doing in one’s spare time)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ver hóbi, passatempo”.

What does hobby mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehobby (an activity that one enjoys doing in one’s spare time)

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. ver hóbi, passatempo

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 hobby

  • hobbies plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce hobby?

  • Brazil /ˈʁɔ.bi/
  • Brazil [ˈhɔ.bi]
  • /ˈʁɔ.bi/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to hobby

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is hobby in Portuguese?

hobby appears 3.6 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).