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raison d'être

Portuguese, noun

raison d'être is spelled R-A-I-S-O-N-D-Ê-T-R-E (11 letters). Raison d'être is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “raison d'être (reason for existence)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does raison d'être mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineraison d'être (reason for existence)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

phrase: 1. razão de ser

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 raison d'être

  • raisons d'être plural

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

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