sertanejo

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English

Etymology

From Portuguese sertanejo.

Noun

sertanejo (plural sertanejos)

  1. In Brazil, someone from the countryside; a backlander.
    • 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 239:
      Life in the open air had made him as tanned and weather-beaten as a sertanejo.
  2. (music) A type of Brazilian folk music.
    • 2010, Felipe Trotta, Annoying Music in Everyday Life:
      I hate sertanejo music. This has something to do with when I was a teenager and my dad liked sertanejo while I wanted to be totally different.

Portuguese

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Etymology

From sertão (“rural, semi-arid area”) +‎ -ejo.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Hyphenation: ser‧ta‧ne‧jo

Adjective

sertanejo (feminine sertaneja, masculine plural sertanejos, feminine plural sertanejas)

  1. from or relating to a rural, semi-arid area
  2. (loosely) rural (from or relating to any less-populated area)

Synonyms

Noun

sertanejo m (plural sertanejos, feminine sertaneja, feminine plural sertanejas)

  1. native or inhabitant of a rural, semi-arid area
  2. (loosely) rustic; countryman (someone from a less-populated area)
  3. (music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)
  4. a fan of sertanejo music

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Spanish

Adjective

sertanejo (feminine sertaneja, masculine plural sertanejos, feminine plural sertanejas)

  1. (relational) sertanejo

Noun

sertanejo m (uncountable)

  1. (music) sertanejo (a genre of Brazilian folk music)
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