saudade

Meaning of saudade

noun
  1. (especially with reference to songs or poetry) a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament.
    her songs are based on love poems and evoke a melancholy known to the Portuguese as saudade
    yearnings, saudades, those sonorous fruits grown for overripe hearts

Portuguese.

Information about saudade

Hyphenation of saudade

saudade

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • saudade is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with saudade

Dade, dade, McDade, alidade, brandade

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