torre de marfim
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15 characters
Language
Portuguese
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torre de marfim is aPortuguesephrase. It means: designação das ações e ideias apartadas das coisas cotidianas e práticas, mormente aplicada ao meio acadêmico; afastamento da realidade com preocupação voltada somente ao plano intelectual Pronounced /ˈto.ʁi d͡ʒi maʁˈfĩ/ [ˈto.hi d͡ʒi mahˈfĩ].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | torre de marfim |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | /ˈto.ʁi d͡ʒi maʁˈfĩ/ [ˈto.hi d͡ʒi mahˈfĩ] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for torre de marfim is 15 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈto.ʁi d͡ʒi maʁˈfĩ/ [ˈto.hi d͡ʒi mahˈfĩ]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for torre de marfim in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Portuguese patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is torre de marfim, spelled T-O-R-R-E- -D-E- -M-A-R-F-I-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1designação das ações e ideias apartadas das coisas cotidianas e práticas, mormente aplicada ao meio acadêmico; afastamento da realidade com preocupação voltada somente ao plano intelectual
- 2postura de distanciamento ou isolamento arrogante
- 3lugar intocado e afastado das coisas mundanas, momentâneas e supérfluas
- 4um dos epítetos de Maria, mãe de Jesus
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