aldeia

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aldeia

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Borrowed from Portuguese aldeia. Doublet of aldea

noun aldeias

historical In colonial Brazil, a settlement created to assimilate and convert the indigenous population, similar to the Spanish reducción It is little wonder that the settlers envied the wealth of the Jesuit aldeias, and resented what they saw as the Jesuits’ obstruction of their efforts to procure an adequate supply of labour for their own plantations.

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@misc{aldeia_2026,
  title = {aldeia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aldeia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}