🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

segregação

Pronunciation / Transliteration: segregação

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Segregation/ˌsɛɡrɪˈɡeɪʃən/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A segregação social continua a ser um problema grave."

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things.

    "The country finally abolished racial segregation in schools."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Latin segregatio(n-), from the verb segregare, from se- 'apart' + grex, greg- 'flock'.

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