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  • 1 aiśvarya

    desire for power

    Sanskrit-English dictionary by latin letters > aiśvarya

  • 2 apetencia

    f.
    1 appetite, hunger.
    2 natural desire of something.
    3 liking, appetency, appetence, desire.
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    1 (apetito) appetite, hunger
    2 figurado (deseo) longing, craving, desire
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    SF hunger (de for)
    * * *

    apetencia de algo: no tiene apetencia de nada — nothing appeals to him, he doesn't feel like anything

    * * *

    apetencia de algo: no tiene apetencia de nada — nothing appeals to him, he doesn't feel like anything

    * * *
    apetencia DE algo:
    no tiene apetencia de nada nothing appeals to him, he doesn't feel like o want anything
    su apetencia de poder ( liter); his desire o craving for power
    * * *
    desire;
    no tengo apetencia de poder I have no desire for power, I do not seek power

    Spanish-English dictionary > apetencia

  • 3 volonté

    volonté [vɔlɔ̃te]
    feminine noun
       a. ( = souhait, intention) wish ; ( = faculté) will
    • accomplir/respecter la volonté de qn to carry out/respect sb's wishes
    • volonté de guérir/réussir will to recover/succeed
    • « café à volonté » "as much coffee as you like"
       b. ( = disposition) bonne volonté willingness
    • il met de la bonne/mauvaise volonté à faire son travail he goes about his work willingly/grudgingly
    • il fait preuve de bonne/mauvaise volonté he has a positive/negative attitude
       c. ( = caractère, énergie) willpower
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    vɔlɔ̃te
    1.
    1) ( disposition) will

    faire preuve de bonne/mauvaise volonté — to show goodwill/ill-will

    2) ( trait de caractère) willpower

    2.
    à volonté locution adverbiale

    ‘vin/pain/crudités à volonté’ — ‘unlimited wine/bread/salad’

    2) ( comme on veut) [modulable] as required
    * * *
    vɔlɔ̃te nf
    1) [peuple] will
    2) (= énergie, fermeté) willpower

    Il a beaucoup de volonté. — He's got a lot of willpower., He's strong-willed.

    3) (= souhait, désir) wish
    4) (= disposition)

    bonne volonté — goodwill, willingness

    mauvaise volonté — lack of goodwill, unwillingness

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    A nf
    1 ( disposition) will; imposer sa volonté to impose one's will (à qn on sb); la volonté du peuple the will of the people; il a été inscrit contre sa volonté he was entered against his will; même avec la meilleure volonté du monde even with the best will in the world; ‘que ta volonté soit faite’ Relig ‘thy will be done’; bonne/mauvaise volonté goodwill/ill-will; faire preuve de bonne/mauvaise volonté to show goodwill/ill-will; être plein de bonne volonté to be full of goodwill; une personne/un geste de bonne volonté a person/an act of goodwill; elle y met de la mauvaise volonté she's doing it with bad grace or reluctantly; contrarier/aller contre la volonté de qn to thwart/go against sb's wishes; deux volontés contraires se sont exprimées two opposing wishes were expressed; manifester la volonté de faire to show one's willingness to do; leur volonté de signer les accords/refuser le compromis est claire their willingness to sign the agreements/refuse the compromise is clear; volonté de puissance/conquête/paix/vengeance desire for power/conquest/peace/revenge; faire appel aux bonnes volontés to appeal for volunteers; pour des raisons indépendantes de notre volonté for reasons beyond our control; ⇒ dernier, quatre;
    2 ( trait de caractère) willpower; avoir de la volonté to have willpower; faire preuve de volonté to show willpower; c'est une question de volonté it's a question of willpower; réussir à faire qch à force de volonté to succeed in doing sth by sheer willpower; avoir une volonté de fer to have an iron will.
    B à volonté loc adv
    1 ( autant que l'on veut) ‘vin/pain/crudités à volonté’ ‘unlimited wine/bread/salad’; ⇒ feu;
    2 ( comme on veut) [modulable] as required.
    [vɔlɔ̃te] nom féminin
    1. [détermination] will, willpower
    avoir de la volonté/beaucoup de volonté to have willpower/a strong will
    il manque de volonté he lacks willpower, he doesn't have enough willpower
    2. [désir] will, wish
    faire quelque chose/aller contre la volonté de quelqu'un to do something/go against somebody's will
    la volonté de gagner/survivre the will to win/to survive
    que Ta/Votre volonté soit faite Thy will be done
    3. [disposition]
    allez, lève-toi, c'est de la mauvaise volonté! come on, get up, you're not really trying!
    ————————
    à volonté locution adjectivale
    café à volonté as much coffee as you want, unlimited coffee
    ————————
    à volonté locution adverbiale
    [arrêter, continuer] at will

    Dictionnaire Français-Anglais > volonté

  • 4 pożąda|nie

    Ⅰ sv ⇒ pożądać Ⅱ n 1. (pragnienie) desire
    - pożądanie władzy/bogactwa a desire for power/wealth
    - przedmiot pożądania an object of desire
    - budzić czyjeś pożądanie to be an object of desire for sb
    2. (pociąg seksualny) desire, (silne) lust
    - gwałtowne/niepohamowane pożądanie a violent/unstoppable desire
    - czuć do kogoś pożądanie to feel desire for sb

    The New English-Polish, Polish-English Kościuszko foundation dictionary > pożąda|nie

  • 5 gose

    iz.
    1. hunger; \gose min ravenous hunger; \gosez hil to starve to death; \gosea {hil || berdindu} to satisfy one's hunger; \gosea egin zaio he got hungry; \goseak amorratzen dago he's starving | he's dying for something to eat
    a. craving, urge, yearning, hunger; Jainkoaren hitzaren \gose eta egarri dutenak those who hunger and thirst for the word of God; jakintza hori ez du aginte-\goseak ekarri, jakin-\goseak baizik that knowledge did not result from a yearning for authority but from a yearning to know instead
    b. desire; aginte-\goseak eraginda driven by a desire for power; diru-\gose greed io.
    1.
    a. hungry, ravenous, famished; otso \goseen artean among ravenous wolves; \gose-mindua racked by hunger
    b. \goseari jaten eman to feed the hungry
    2. ( handinahi) ambitious

    Euskara Ingelesa hiztegiaren > gose

  • 6 ambición

    f.
    1 ambition, ambitiousness, greed, acquisitiveness.
    2 objective, ambition, goal, aim.
    3 drive, pushfulness, initiative, gumption.
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    1 ambition, aspiration
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    noun f.
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    * * *
    femenino ambition
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    Ex. The ambition of the librarian must be to identify the needs in good time, to have the service available at an appropriate point and to encourage the user to approach the library.
    ----
    * ambición profesional = careerism.
    * persona con ambición = high flyer [high flier, -USA], go-getter.
    * persona con mucha ambición = social climber.
    * * *
    femenino ambition
    * * *

    Ex: The ambition of the librarian must be to identify the needs in good time, to have the service available at an appropriate point and to encourage the user to approach the library.

    * ambición profesional = careerism.
    * persona con ambición = high flyer [high flier, -USA], go-getter.
    * persona con mucha ambición = social climber.

    * * *
    ambition
    cegado por la ambición blinded by ambition
    jóvenes con muchas ambiciones or mucha ambición young people with a lot of ambition, very ambitious young people
    su única ambición … her one ambition
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    ambición sustantivo femenino
    ambition
    ambición sustantivo femenino ambition, aspiration
    ' ambición' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    aspiración
    - saciar
    - sed
    - sueño
    - cumplir
    - dominar
    - límite
    - máximo
    English:
    ambition
    - drive
    - fuel
    - fulfil
    - fulfill
    - fulfillment
    - fulfilment
    - naked
    - nurse
    - push
    * * *
    ambition;
    su máxima ambición era visitar la India her greatest ambition was to go to India;
    la ambición de poder lo perdió his burning desire for power was his undoing;
    tener ambiciones to be ambitious;
    no tiene ambiciones he's unambitious, he lacks ambition
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    f ambition;
    sin ambiciones unambitious
    * * *
    ambición nf, pl - ciones : ambition
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    ambición n ambition

    Spanish-English dictionary > ambición

  • 7 ansia

    f.
    1 longing, yearning.
    2 anxiousness.
    ansias sickness, nausea (náuseas)
    3 desire, anxiety, eagerness, expectancy.
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    (Takes el in singular)
    1 (ansiedad) anxiety; (angustia) anguish
    2 (deseo) eagerness, longing, yearning
    3 MEDICINA sick feeling
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=anhelo) yearning, longing

    ansia de libertad/amor — yearning o longing for freedom/love

    ansia de poder/riqueza/conocimiento/aventura — thirst for power/wealth/knowledge/adventure

    tenía ansias de verla — he was yearning o longing to see her

    2) (=ansiedad) anxiety, worry; (=angustia) anguish
    3) pl ansias (=náuseas) nausea sing

    tener ansias — to feel sick o nauseous

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    femenino‡
    a) ( avidez)

    ansia de algo — de paz/libertad longing for something, yearning for something

    sus ansias de poder — her thirst o craving for power

    sentir ansia de hacer algo — to long o yearn to do something

    b) (Psic) anxiety
    c) ansias femenino plural (Col, Ven fam) ( náuseas) nausea
    * * *
    = yearning, craving, thirst, eagerness, uneasiness.
    Ex. A flood of feeling welled up in him about life and death and beauty and suffering and transitoriness and the yearning of his unsatisfied soul for a happiness not to be found on earth which poured out in 'Ode to a Nightingale'.
    Ex. The craving for data to document the status and excellence of library service is very real.
    Ex. The thirst grew not just for preservation but for circulation of stories that gave meaning to life and coherence to communities.
    Ex. The sense of alienation that had evolved over 50 years has gradually given way to a spirit of teamwork and eagerness to learn.
    Ex. Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    ----
    * ansia de aventura = thirst for adventure.
    * ansia de saber = thirst for knowledge.
    * ansias de = hunger for, lust for, greed for.
    * ansias de cambiar de sitio = itchy feet.
    * ansias de conocer mundo = wanderlust.
    * ansias de matar = bloodlust.
    * ansias de viajar = itchy feet.
    * con ansias de conquistar el mundo = world-conquering.
    * con ansias de leer = reading-desirous.
    * con ansias de poder = power-hungry.
    * tener ansias de = crave for.
    * * *
    femenino‡
    a) ( avidez)

    ansia de algo — de paz/libertad longing for something, yearning for something

    sus ansias de poder — her thirst o craving for power

    sentir ansia de hacer algo — to long o yearn to do something

    b) (Psic) anxiety
    c) ansias femenino plural (Col, Ven fam) ( náuseas) nausea
    * * *
    = yearning, craving, thirst, eagerness, uneasiness.

    Ex: A flood of feeling welled up in him about life and death and beauty and suffering and transitoriness and the yearning of his unsatisfied soul for a happiness not to be found on earth which poured out in 'Ode to a Nightingale'.

    Ex: The craving for data to document the status and excellence of library service is very real.
    Ex: The thirst grew not just for preservation but for circulation of stories that gave meaning to life and coherence to communities.
    Ex: The sense of alienation that had evolved over 50 years has gradually given way to a spirit of teamwork and eagerness to learn.
    Ex: Uneasiness evidenced by some inquirers at the reference desk seems to stem from unfamiliarity with the personnel and service, and a fear of appearing ignorant.
    * ansia de aventura = thirst for adventure.
    * ansia de saber = thirst for knowledge.
    * ansias de = hunger for, lust for, greed for.
    * ansias de cambiar de sitio = itchy feet.
    * ansias de conocer mundo = wanderlust.
    * ansias de matar = bloodlust.
    * ansias de viajar = itchy feet.
    * con ansias de conquistar el mundo = world-conquering.
    * con ansias de leer = reading-desirous.
    * con ansias de poder = power-hungry.
    * tener ansias de = crave for.

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    f‡
    1
    (deseo, avidez): comer/beber con ansia to eat/drink eagerly
    desear algo con ansia to want sth desperately
    ansia DE algo longing FOR sth, yearning FOR sth
    ansia de conocimientos/libertad longing o thirst o yearning for knowledge/freedom
    no lograba satisfacer sus ansias de poder she was unable to satisfy her thirst o lust o craving for power
    sentía ansias de volver a verla he longed o yearned to see her again
    2 ( Psic) anxiety
    3 ansias fpl (Col, Ven fam) (náuseas) nausea
    * * *

    Del verbo ansiar: ( conjugate ansiar)

    ansia es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) presente indicativo

    2ª persona singular (tú) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    ansia    
    ansiar
    ansia feminine noun taking masculine article in the singular
    a) (avidez, deseo):

    ◊ con ansia ‹comer/beber› eagerly;

    ansia de algo ‹de paz/libertad› longing for sth, yearning for sth;

    ‹ de poder› thirst for sth, craving for sth;
    ◊ sentir ansia de hacer algo to long o yearn to do sth;

    sus ansias de aprendar her eagerness to learn
    b) (Psic) anxiety

    c)

    ◊ ansias sustantivo femenino plural (Col, Ven fam) ( náuseas) nausea

    ansiar ( conjugate ansiar) verbo transitivo (liter) ‹libertad/poder› to long for, yearn for;

    ansia sustantivo femenino
    1 (deseo) longing, yearning
    2 (intranquilidad, desasosiego) anxiety
    2 Med sick feeling
    ansiar verbo transitivo to long for, yearn for

    ' ansia' also found in these entries:
    English:
    anxiety
    - craving
    - greedy
    - itch
    - lust
    - hunger
    - yearning
    * * *
    1. [afán] longing, yearning;
    tiene ansia de poder she is hungry for power;
    bebía con ansia he drank thirstily;
    las ansias de vivir the will to live;
    las ansias independentistas de la región the region's desire for independence
    2. [ansiedad] anxiousness;
    [angustia] anguish;
    esperan los resultados con ansia they are anxiously waiting for the results;
    no pases ansia, todo saldrá bien don't worry o be anxious, it will all turn out all right in the end
    3.
    ansias [náuseas] sickness, nausea
    * * *
    f
    1 yearning;
    ansia de saber thirst for knowledge;
    ansia de poder desire o yearning for power
    2 ( inquietud) anxiety, anxiousness
    3
    :
    ansias pl nausea sg
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    ansia nf
    1) inquietud: apprehensiveness, uneasiness
    2) angustia: anguish, distress
    3) anhelo: longing, yearning
    * * *
    ansia n (anhelo) longing / desire

    Spanish-English dictionary > ansia

  • 8 deseo

    m.
    1 desire.
    arder en deseos de hacer algo to be burning with desire to do something
    2 wish (anhelo).
    se cumplió mi deseo my wish came true, I got my wish
    pedir/conceder un deseo to ask for/grant a wish
    tus deseos son órdenes your wish is my command
    buenos deseos good intentions
    con mis/nuestros mejores deseos (with my/our) best wishes (en carta, obsequio)
    pres.indicat.
    1st person singular (yo) present indicative of spanish verb: desear.
    * * *
    1 wish, desire
    \
    formular un deseo to make a wish
    tener deseo de algo to wish something
    ■ tengo muchos deseos de que llegue el verano I wish summer would come, I'm longing for the summer
    buenos deseos good intentions
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    noun m.
    desire, wish
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    SM
    1) (=anhelo) desire, wish

    mi mayor deseo es encontrar un trabajo — my dearest wish o greatest desire is to find a job

    tengo deseos de verla — I yearn to see her, I'm longing to see her

    ardo en deseos de conocerla — liter I have a burning desire to meet her

    2) (=cosa deseada) wish

    pedir o formular un deseo — to make a wish

    3) (tb: deseo sexual) desire
    * * *
    a) ( anhelo) wish

    tus deseos son órdenes para mí — (fr hecha) your wish is my command (set phrase)

    deseos de algo: con mis mejores deseos de felicidad/éxito wishing you every happiness/success; ardía en deseos de verla — (liter) he had a burning desire to see her

    b) ( apetito sexual) desire
    * * *
    = appetite, desire, want, will, willingness, wish, craving, urge, thirst, yearning.
    Ex. We need to know what and how consumers' information appetites have changed.
    Ex. Equally important was the desire to achieve a single text.
    Ex. Several possible rules governing the reference interview are examined; one calls for inquiry into client's underlying wants, 'the face value rule', another for inquiry into underlying needs, 'the purpose rule'.
    Ex. 'I only wanted to write an interesting tale,' he will say, ignoring that the interest of a story almost always comes from seeing the human will in action -- against chaos or against order.
    Ex. The basic answer is a willingness to divert the resources to do it, and the ability to find the resources.
    Ex. On Carmichael's face came the look of one who sees the immediate fulfillment of a wish.
    Ex. The craving for data to document the status and excellence of library service is very real.
    Ex. The urge to mechanize paper-making came at first as much from the papermakers' desire to free themselves from dependence upon their skilled but rebellious workmen as from the pursuit of production economies.
    Ex. The thirst grew not just for preservation but for circulation of stories that gave meaning to life and coherence to communities.
    Ex. A flood of feeling welled up in him about life and death and beauty and suffering and transitoriness and the yearning of his unsatisfied soul for a happiness not to be found on earth which poured out in 'Ode to a Nightingale'.
    ----
    * amoldarse al deseo de Alguien = bend itself to + Posesivo + will.
    * contra el deseo de Alguien = against + Posesivo + will.
    * deseo de = hunger for, lust for, greed for.
    * deseo de aventura = thirst for adventure.
    * deseo de cooperación = engagement.
    * deseo de matar = bloodlust.
    * deseo explícito = explicit wish.
    * deseo + hacerse realidad = wish + come true.
    * deseo inconsciente de morir = death-wish.
    * deseo por aprender = thirst for knowledge.
    * deseo sexual = lust, sexual desire.
    * despertar el deseo = arouse + hunger.
    * expresar los deseos de uno = make + Posesivo + wishes known.
    * falta de deseo = unwillingness.
    * fuente de los deseos = wishing well.
    * hacer realidad una deseo = fulfil + Posesivo + wish.
    * lista de deseos = wish list.
    * pedir un deseo = make + a wish, mounting problems.
    * pozo de los deseos = wishing well.
    * quitar el deseo = suffocate + desire.
    * satisfacer el deseo = satisfy + appetite.
    * satisfacer el deseo de Uno por = indulge + Posesivo + taste for.
    * sentir el deseo de = have + an/the inclination to, get + the urge to.
    * * *
    a) ( anhelo) wish

    tus deseos son órdenes para mí — (fr hecha) your wish is my command (set phrase)

    deseos de algo: con mis mejores deseos de felicidad/éxito wishing you every happiness/success; ardía en deseos de verla — (liter) he had a burning desire to see her

    b) ( apetito sexual) desire
    * * *
    = appetite, desire, want, will, willingness, wish, craving, urge, thirst, yearning.

    Ex: We need to know what and how consumers' information appetites have changed.

    Ex: Equally important was the desire to achieve a single text.
    Ex: Several possible rules governing the reference interview are examined; one calls for inquiry into client's underlying wants, 'the face value rule', another for inquiry into underlying needs, 'the purpose rule'.
    Ex: 'I only wanted to write an interesting tale,' he will say, ignoring that the interest of a story almost always comes from seeing the human will in action -- against chaos or against order.
    Ex: The basic answer is a willingness to divert the resources to do it, and the ability to find the resources.
    Ex: On Carmichael's face came the look of one who sees the immediate fulfillment of a wish.
    Ex: The craving for data to document the status and excellence of library service is very real.
    Ex: The urge to mechanize paper-making came at first as much from the papermakers' desire to free themselves from dependence upon their skilled but rebellious workmen as from the pursuit of production economies.
    Ex: The thirst grew not just for preservation but for circulation of stories that gave meaning to life and coherence to communities.
    Ex: A flood of feeling welled up in him about life and death and beauty and suffering and transitoriness and the yearning of his unsatisfied soul for a happiness not to be found on earth which poured out in 'Ode to a Nightingale'.
    * amoldarse al deseo de Alguien = bend itself to + Posesivo + will.
    * contra el deseo de Alguien = against + Posesivo + will.
    * deseo de = hunger for, lust for, greed for.
    * deseo de aventura = thirst for adventure.
    * deseo de cooperación = engagement.
    * deseo de matar = bloodlust.
    * deseo explícito = explicit wish.
    * deseo + hacerse realidad = wish + come true.
    * deseo inconsciente de morir = death-wish.
    * deseo por aprender = thirst for knowledge.
    * deseo sexual = lust, sexual desire.
    * despertar el deseo = arouse + hunger.
    * expresar los deseos de uno = make + Posesivo + wishes known.
    * falta de deseo = unwillingness.
    * fuente de los deseos = wishing well.
    * hacer realidad una deseo = fulfil + Posesivo + wish.
    * lista de deseos = wish list.
    * pedir un deseo = make + a wish, mounting problems.
    * pozo de los deseos = wishing well.
    * quitar el deseo = suffocate + desire.
    * satisfacer el deseo = satisfy + appetite.
    * satisfacer el deseo de Uno por = indulge + Posesivo + taste for.
    * sentir el deseo de = have + an/the inclination to, get + the urge to.

    * * *
    1 (anhelo) wish
    el hada le concedió tres deseos the fairy granted him three wishes
    formular un deseo to make a wish
    que se hagan realidad or que se cumplan todos tus deseos may all your wishes come true
    tus deseos son órdenes para mí ( fr hecha); your wish is my command ( set phrase)
    se procedió según su deseo everything was done according to his wishes
    su último deseo fue que lo enterrasen allí his dying o last wish was to be buried there
    deseos DE algo:
    con mis mejores deseos de felicidad/éxito wishing you every happiness/success
    deseos DE + INF:
    ardía en deseos de verla ( liter); he had a burning desire to see her
    la satisfacción del deseo the satisfaction of desire
    * * *

     

    Del verbo desear: ( conjugate desear)

    deseo es:

    1ª persona singular (yo) presente indicativo

    deseó es:

    3ª persona singular (él/ella/usted) pretérito indicativo

    Multiple Entries:
    desear    
    deseo
    desear ( conjugate desear) verbo transitivo
    1 ‹suerte/éxito/felicidad› to wish;

    2 ( querer):

    las tan deseadas vacaciones the long-awaited holidays;
    lo que más deseo es … my greatest wish is …;
    si tú lo deseas if you want to;
    deseoía una respuesta ahora I would like a reply now;
    está deseando verte he's really looking forward to seeing you;
    ¿desea que se lo envuelva? (frml) would you like me to wrap it for you?
    3 ‹ persona› to desire, want
    deseo sustantivo masculino
    a) ( anhelo) wish;



    desear verbo transitivo
    1 (anhelar, querer con intensidad) to desire: estoy deseando verte, I'm looking forward to seeing you
    te deseo lo mejor, I wish you all the best
    (suerte, felicidad, etc) to wish: os deseo unas felices vacaciones, have a good holiday
    2 (sexualmente) to desire, want
    3 frml (querer) to want: ¿desea usted algo, caballero?, can I help you, Sir?
    deseo ver al director, I would like to see the manager
    ♦ Locuciones: deja mucho/bastante que desear, it leaves a lot to be desired
    deseo sustantivo masculino
    1 wish
    2 (sexual, pasional) desire
    deseos de venganza, desire for revenge
    ♦ Locuciones: arder en deseos, to yearn for
    ' deseo' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abrigar
    - ansia
    - aspiración
    - capricho
    - carnal
    - conceder
    - cumplir
    - cumplirse
    - desear
    - formular
    - gana
    - hambre
    - impulso
    - pretensión
    - provocar
    - prurito
    - que
    - rabiar
    - realizar
    - saciar
    - satisfacción
    - sed
    - si
    - sucumbir
    - sueño
    - voluntad
    - ardiente
    - avivar
    - excitar
    - felicitación
    - feliz
    - ferviente
    - insatisfecho
    - irrealizable
    - irresistible
    - mejor
    - querer
    - viveza
    - vivo
    English:
    anxiety
    - appetite
    - ardent
    - death wish
    - desire
    - every
    - express
    - get-well card
    - indulge
    - indulgence
    - intense
    - longing
    - lust
    - overwhelming
    - sexual
    - uncontrollable
    - unvoiced
    - wish
    * * *
    deseo nm
    1. [pasión] desire;
    no sentía ningún deseo por él she felt no desire for him
    2. [anhelo] wish;
    piensa un deseo y sopla las velas think of a wish and blow out the candles;
    expresó su deseo de paz para la región he expressed his desire for peace in the region;
    buenos deseos good intentions;
    con mis/nuestros mejores deseos [en carta, obsequio] (with my/our) best wishes;
    conceder un deseo to grant a wish;
    se cumplió mi deseo my wish came true, I got my wish;
    formular un deseo to make a wish;
    pedir un deseo to ask for a wish;
    Formal
    por deseo expreso de… at the express wish of…;
    su último deseo fue… his last wish was…;
    su último deseo fue que la casa nunca se vendiera her last o dying wish was that the house should never be sold;
    tus deseos son órdenes your wish is my command
    * * *
    m wish
    * * *
    deseo nm
    : wish, desire
    * * *
    deseo n wish [pl. wishes]

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  • 9 Begierde

    f; -, -n desire, appetite ( nach for); fleischliche: desire, lust; fleischliche Begierden desires of the flesh
    * * *
    die Begierde
    eagerness; appetite; avidness; appetency; desire; avidity
    * * *
    die
    2) ((a) very strong desire: a lust for power.) lust
    * * *
    Be·gier·de
    <-, -n>
    [bəˈgi:ɐ̯də]
    f (geh) desire ( nach + dat for)
    die \Begierde nach Macht the lust for power
    vor \Begierde brennen, etw zu tun to be burning [or longing] to do sth
    voll \Begierde longingly, hungrily
    * * *
    die; Begierde, Begierden desire ( nach for)
    * * *
    Begierde f; -, -n desire, appetite (
    nach for); fleischliche: desire, lust;
    fleischliche Begierden desires of the flesh
    * * *
    die; Begierde, Begierden desire ( nach for)
    * * *
    -n f.
    appetence n.
    appetency n.
    n.
    avidity n.
    avidness n.
    cupidity n.
    desire n.
    lust n.

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  • 10 Wille

    m; -ns, -n, meist Sg. will; (Entschlossenheit) auch determination; (Absicht) intention; PHILOS. will, volition; der Wille zum Frieden / zur Macht the desire for peace / will to power; Gottes Wille God’s will, the will of God; böser / guter Wille ill / good will; letzter Wille will; JUR. last will and testament; weitS. last ( oder dying) wish; es war kein böser Wille it wasn’t intentional, he etc. didn’t do it out of spite; guten Willens sein mean well, be well-intentioned; seinen guten Willen zeigen show one’s ( oder some) goodwill; es fehlt ihm nur der gute Wille he just has to want to; mit ein bisschen gutem Willen with a little bit of good will; den guten Willen für die Tat nehmen take the will for the deed; beim besten Willen nicht much as I’d like to; ich kann mich beim besten Willen nicht erinnern I can’t for the life of me remember, with the best will in the world I can’t remember; es ist mein fester Wille I’m absolutely determined, it’s my firm intention; aus freiem Willen of one’s own free will; einen eisernen Willen haben have an iron will, be iron-willed; seinen / keinen eigenen Willen haben have a / no mind of one’s own; seinen Willen bekommen oder durchsetzen have oder get one’s way; jemandem seinen Willen lassen let s.o. have his oder her (own) way; wider oder gegen seinen Willen against one’s will; gegen jemandes Willen handeln act against s.o.’s wishes; wenn es nach seinem Willen ginge if he had his way; ganz nach deinem Willen as you wish; es geschah ohne meinen Willen I had nothing to do with it, it happened without my say-so; jemandem zu Willen sein geh. altm. obey s.o.’s wishes; stärker: submit to s.o.; Frau: give o.s. to s.o.; sich (Dat) jemanden zu Willen machen geh. altm. bend s.o. to one’s will; (Frau) have one’s way with s.o.; dein Wille geschehe BIBL. thy will be done; wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg Sprichw. where there’s a will, there’s a way; Mensch1 2
    * * *
    der Wille
    will; willingness
    * * *
    Wịl|le ['vɪlə]
    m -ns, no pl
    will; (= Absicht, Entschluss) intention

    nach jds Willen — as sb wanted/wants; (von Architekt etc) as sb intended/intends

    es steht (nicht) in unserem Willen, das zu tun (geh) — it is (not) our intention to do that

    seinen eigenen Willen haben — to be self-willed, to have a mind of one's own

    alle Menschen, die guten Willens sind — all people of good will

    jdm zu Willen sein — to comply with sb's wishes; (Mädchen

    jdn zu Willen machen — to bend sb to one's will, to force sb to do one's will; Mädchen to have one's way with sb

    wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg (Prov) — where there's a will there's a way (Prov)

    See:
    → letzte(r, s)
    * * *
    der
    1) (the mental power by which one controls one's thought, actions and decisions: Do you believe in freedom of the will?) will
    2) ((control over) one's desire(s) or wish(es); determination: It was done against her will; He has no will of his own - he always does what the others want; Children often have strong wills; He has lost the will to live.) will
    * * *
    Wil·le
    <- ns>
    [ˈvɪlə]
    m kein pl will kein pl; (Wunsch) wish; (Absicht) intention
    er sollte aufhören zu rauchen, aber dazu fehlt ihm der [nötige] \Wille he should stop smoking but he has not got the [necessary] willpower
    er hat den festen \Willen, mit dem Rauchen aufzuhören he firmly intends to stop smoking
    auf seinem \Willen bestehen to insist on having one's way
    beim besten \Willen nicht not even with the best will in the world
    ich kann mir beim besten \Willen nicht vorstellen, warum sie das tun will I cannot for the life of me imagine why she wants to do that
    das war kein böser \Wille there was no ill will intended
    seinen \Willen durchsetzen to get one's own way
    seinen eigenen \Willen haben to have a mind of one's own
    etw aus freiem \Willen tun to do sth of one's own free will [or voluntarily]
    gegen [o wider] jds \Willen against sb's will
    das geschah gegen meinen \Willen (ohne meine Zustimmung) that was done against my will; (unabsichtlich) I didn't intend that to happen
    der gute \Wille goodwill
    guten \Willens sein to be full of good intention
    er ist voll guten \Willens he is very well intentioned
    keinen \Willen haben to have no will of one's own
    jdm seinen \Wille lassen to let sb have his own way
    jds letzter \Wille (geh) sb's last will and testament form
    nach jds \Willen as sb wanted/wants
    wenn es nach meinem \Willen ginge... if I had my way...
    wider \Willen unintentionally
    ich musste wider \Willen lachen I couldn't help laughing
    sich dat jdn zu \Willen machen to bend sb to one's will, to force sb to do one's will; Mädchen, Frau to have one's way with sb
    jdm zu \Wille sein to comply with sb's wishes; (sich jdm hingeben) to yield to sb, to let sb have his way with one
    sie war ihm zu \Willen (veraltet) she let him have her way with her
    ▶ wo ein \Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg (prov) where there's a will there's a way prov
    * * *
    der; Willens will; (Wunsch) wish; (Absicht) intention

    guter/böser Wille — goodwill/ill will

    letzter Wille — will; last will and testament (formal)

    * * *
    Wille m; -ns, -n, meist sg will; (Entschlossenheit) auch determination; (Absicht) intention; PHIL will, volition;
    der Wille zum Frieden/zur Macht the desire for peace/will to power;
    Gottes Wille God’s will, the will of God;
    böser/guter Wille ill/good will;
    Letzter Wille will; JUR last will and testament; weitS. last ( oder dying) wish;
    es war kein böser Wille it wasn’t intentional, he etc didn’t do it out of spite;
    guten Willens sein mean well, be well-intentioned;
    seinen guten Willen zeigen show one’s ( oder some) goodwill;
    es fehlt ihm nur der gute Wille he just has to want to;
    mit ein bisschen gutem Willen with a little bit of good will;
    den guten Willen für die Tat nehmen take the will for the deed;
    beim besten Willen nicht much as I’d like to;
    ich kann mich beim besten Willen nicht erinnern I can’t for the life of me remember, with the best will in the world I can’t remember;
    es ist mein fester Wille I’m absolutely determined, it’s my firm intention;
    aus freiem Willen of one’s own free will;
    einen eisernen Willen haben have an iron will, be iron-willed;
    seinen/keinen eigenen Willen haben have a/no mind of one’s own;
    durchsetzen have oder get one’s way;
    jemandem seinen Willen lassen let sb have his oder her (own) way;
    gegen seinen Willen against one’s will;
    gegen jemandes Willen handeln act against sb’s wishes;
    es geschah ohne meinen Willen I had nothing to do with it, it happened without my say-so;
    jemandem zu Willen sein geh obs obey sb’s wishes; stärker: submit to sb; Frau: give o.s. to sb;
    sich (dat)
    jemanden zu Willen machen geh obs bend sb to one’s will; (Frau) have one’s way with sb;
    dein Wille geschehe BIBEL thy will be done;
    wo ein Wille ist, ist auch ein Weg sprichw where there’s a will, there’s a way; → Mensch1 2
    * * *
    der; Willens will; (Wunsch) wish; (Absicht) intention

    guter/böser Wille — goodwill/ill will

    letzter Wille — will; last will and testament (formal)

    * * *
    nur sing. m.
    volition n.
    will n.

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  • 11 anhelar

    v.
    1 to long or wish for.
    anhelar hacer algo to long to do something
    2 to desire, to aspire after, to be sick for, to crave after.
    3 to yearn to, to desire to, to long to, to look forward to.
    4 to pine, to languish.
    * * *
    1 to long for, yearn for
    * * *
    verb
    to long for, yearn for
    * * *
    1.
    VT to long for, yearn for

    anhelar hacer algo — to be eager to do sth, long to do sth

    2.
    VI (Med) to gasp, pant
    * * *
    verbo transitivo (liter) <fama/poder> to yearn for, to long for

    anhelar + inf — to long to + inf, yearn to + inf

    * * *
    = itch for, long (for), crave, be more than ready for, gag for, covet, pine, lust (for/after/over), yearn, crave for.
    Ex. It seems like he's itching for a change but doesn't know exactly the direction or directions to pursue in order to accomplish the change.
    Ex. After you have chosen a story you long to tell, read it over and over and then analyse it.
    Ex. Mayo maintained that workers are motivated by 'togetherness' and crave individual recognition within the group = Mayo mantenía que los trabajadores se motivan por la solidaridad y anhelan el reconocimiento individual dentro del grupo.
    Ex. By the time the first Italian parliament was formed in 1861, Italy was more than ready for political union.
    Ex. Ireland is gagging for affordable broadband, according to a survey of 1400 net users.
    Ex. He coveted his brother's power and so started to spin a conspiracy in order to assassinate him and take his place both on the throne and on the wedding thalamus.
    Ex. The 2.1 km trail is perfect for working up a thirst - just long enough to make you feel like you got a bit of exercise, but short enough that you aren't pining for very long.
    Ex. These two women were Samaria and Jerusalem, lusting after foreigners and foreign ways, and abandoning their god for shallow and ephemeral pleasures.
    Ex. Since time immemorial, people have yearned for an immediate way to capture living moments in a picture.
    Ex. With all of the things that make up our daily grind, we often find ourselves craving for the next getaway, for the next relaxation period.
    ----
    * anhelar ser = ache to be.
    * * *
    verbo transitivo (liter) <fama/poder> to yearn for, to long for

    anhelar + inf — to long to + inf, yearn to + inf

    * * *
    = itch for, long (for), crave, be more than ready for, gag for, covet, pine, lust (for/after/over), yearn, crave for.

    Ex: It seems like he's itching for a change but doesn't know exactly the direction or directions to pursue in order to accomplish the change.

    Ex: After you have chosen a story you long to tell, read it over and over and then analyse it.
    Ex: Mayo maintained that workers are motivated by 'togetherness' and crave individual recognition within the group = Mayo mantenía que los trabajadores se motivan por la solidaridad y anhelan el reconocimiento individual dentro del grupo.
    Ex: By the time the first Italian parliament was formed in 1861, Italy was more than ready for political union.
    Ex: Ireland is gagging for affordable broadband, according to a survey of 1400 net users.
    Ex: He coveted his brother's power and so started to spin a conspiracy in order to assassinate him and take his place both on the throne and on the wedding thalamus.
    Ex: The 2.1 km trail is perfect for working up a thirst - just long enough to make you feel like you got a bit of exercise, but short enough that you aren't pining for very long.
    Ex: These two women were Samaria and Jerusalem, lusting after foreigners and foreign ways, and abandoning their god for shallow and ephemeral pleasures.
    Ex: Since time immemorial, people have yearned for an immediate way to capture living moments in a picture.
    Ex: With all of the things that make up our daily grind, we often find ourselves craving for the next getaway, for the next relaxation period.
    * anhelar ser = ache to be.

    * * *
    anhelar [A1 ]
    vt
    ( liter); ‹fama/gloria/poder› to yearn for, to long for anhelar + INF to long to + INF, yearn to + INF
    anhelaba llevar una vida tranquila she longed o yearned to lead a peaceful life
    anhelar QUE + SUBJ:
    anhelaba que su hijo fuera feliz his deepest desire o greatest wish was for his son to be happy
    * * *

    anhelar ( conjugate anhelar) verbo transitivo (liter) ‹fama/poder› to yearn for, to long for;

    anhelaba que su hijo fuera feliz his greatest wish was for his son to be happy
    anhelar verbo transitivo to yearn for, to long for

    ' anhelar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    desear
    - suspirar
    English:
    hanker
    - itch
    - long
    - yearn
    * * *
    to long for;
    un político que anhela poder a politician who is hungry for power;
    anhela tener su propia casa she longs to have a house of her own;
    anhelan que acabe la guerra they are longing for the war to end
    * * *
    v/t long for
    * * *
    : to yearn for, to crave

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  • 12 afán

    m.
    1 enthusiasm, urge, eagerness, fervor.
    2 toil, travail.
    3 fidget.
    * * *
    1 (celo) zeal; (interés) keenness, eagerness
    2 (esfuerzo) effort
    * * *
    noun m.
    eagerness, desire
    * * *
    SM
    1) (=deseo) eagerness

    • con afán de, con afán de agradar, repartió regalos para todos — in his eagerness to please he gave everyone presents

    • por afán de, lo hizo por afán de superarse — she did out of a desire to better herself

    • tener afán de algo — to be eager for sth

    afán de lucro, el afán de lucro — the profit motive

    afán de protagonismo, un juez con afán de protagonismo — a judge who loves publicity o always wants to be in the limelight

    afán de victoria — will to win, desire to win

    2) (=ahínco)
    3) frm (=intención)
    4) LAm (=prisa) hurry
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( anhelo) eagerness

    afán de + inf — eagerness to + inf

    b) ( empeño) effort
    2) (Col fam) ( prisa) hurry
    * * *
    = eagerness, industry.
    Ex. The sense of alienation that had evolved over 50 years has gradually given way to a spirit of teamwork and eagerness to learn.
    Ex. In fact, the terms of the contrast are highly ambivalent: order vs. anarchy, liberty vs. despotism, or industry vs. sloth, and also dissimulation vs. honesty.
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    * afán de protagonismo = outburst of ego.
    * con afán = earnestly.
    * * *
    1)
    a) ( anhelo) eagerness

    afán de + inf — eagerness to + inf

    b) ( empeño) effort
    2) (Col fam) ( prisa) hurry
    * * *
    = eagerness, industry.

    Ex: The sense of alienation that had evolved over 50 years has gradually given way to a spirit of teamwork and eagerness to learn.

    Ex: In fact, the terms of the contrast are highly ambivalent: order vs. anarchy, liberty vs. despotism, or industry vs. sloth, and also dissimulation vs. honesty.
    * afán de protagonismo = outburst of ego.
    * con afán = earnestly.

    * * *
    A
    1 (anhelo) eagerness
    su afán de aventuras his thirst for adventure
    su afán de superación her eagerness to better herself
    afán DE + INF:
    su afán de agradar their eagerness o anxiousness o keenness to please
    tiene afán de aprender she's keen to learn
    afán POR + INF:
    su afán por alcanzar la fama his desire to become famous
    2 (empeño) effort
    pone mucho afán en todo lo que hace he puts a lot (of effort) into everything he does
    ¡tanto afán para nada! all that effort for nothing!
    B ( Col fam) (prisa) hurry
    tengo un afán horrible I'm in a terrible hurry
    * * *

     

    afán sustantivo masculino
    1


    afán de hacer algo eagerness to do sth;
    su afán de agradar their eagerness to please;
    tiene afán de aprender she's eager to learn

    2 (Col fam) ( prisa) hurry
    afán sustantivo masculino
    1 (empeño) effort
    2 (anhelo) desire: su mayor afán era ayudarte, his only wish was to help you
    (celo) zeal
    ' afán' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    protagonismo
    - prurito
    - empeño
    English:
    zealously
    - anxious
    * * *
    afán nm
    1. [esfuerzo] hard work;
    con afán energetically, enthusiastically;
    pone mucho afán en el trabajo she puts a lot of effort into her work
    2. [anhelo] urge;
    afán de riquezas desire for wealth;
    su único afán es salir por televisión his one ambition is to appear on television;
    su afán de agradar llega a ser irritante his eagerness to please can be positively irritating;
    tienen mucho afán por conocerte they're really keen to meet you;
    lo único que le mueve es el afán de lucro he's only interested in money;
    una organización sin afán de lucro a Br non-profit-making o US not-for-profit organization;
    lo hizo sin afán de lucro she did it with no thought of personal gain
    * * *
    m
    1 ( esfuerzo) effort
    2 ( deseo) eagerness;
    afán de aprender eagerness to learn;
    afán de saber hunger o thirst for knowledge;
    afán de poder hunger for power;
    sin afán de lucro organización not-for-profit, non-profit;
    con afán enthusiastically
    * * *
    afán nm, pl afanes
    1) anhelo: eagerness, desire
    2) empeño: effort, determination

    Spanish-English dictionary > afán

  • 13 Historical Portugal

       Before Romans described western Iberia or Hispania as "Lusitania," ancient Iberians inhabited the land. Phoenician and Greek trading settlements grew up in the Tagus estuary area and nearby coasts. Beginning around 202 BCE, Romans invaded what is today southern Portugal. With Rome's defeat of Carthage, Romans proceeded to conquer and rule the western region north of the Tagus, which they named Roman "Lusitania." In the fourth century CE, as Rome's rule weakened, the area experienced yet another invasion—Germanic tribes, principally the Suevi, who eventually were Christianized. During the sixth century CE, the Suevi kingdom was superseded by yet another Germanic tribe—the Christian Visigoths.
       A major turning point in Portugal's history came in 711, as Muslim armies from North Africa, consisting of both Arab and Berber elements, invaded the Iberian Peninsula from across the Straits of Gibraltar. They entered what is now Portugal in 714, and proceeded to conquer most of the country except for the far north. For the next half a millennium, Islam and Muslim presence in Portugal left a significant mark upon the politics, government, language, and culture of the country.
       Islam, Reconquest, and Portugal Created, 714-1140
       The long frontier struggle between Muslim invaders and Christian communities in the north of the Iberian peninsula was called the Reconquista (Reconquest). It was during this struggle that the first dynasty of Portuguese kings (Burgundian) emerged and the independent monarchy of Portugal was established. Christian forces moved south from what is now the extreme north of Portugal and gradually defeated Muslim forces, besieging and capturing towns under Muslim sway. In the ninth century, as Christian forces slowly made their way southward, Christian elements were dominant only in the area between Minho province and the Douro River; this region became known as "territorium Portu-calense."
       In the 11th century, the advance of the Reconquest quickened as local Christian armies were reinforced by crusading knights from what is now France and England. Christian forces took Montemor (1034), at the Mondego River; Lamego (1058); Viseu (1058); and Coimbra (1064). In 1095, the king of Castile and Léon granted the country of "Portu-cale," what became northern Portugal, to a Burgundian count who had emigrated from France. This was the foundation of Portugal. In 1139, a descendant of this count, Afonso Henriques, proclaimed himself "King of Portugal." He was Portugal's first monarch, the "Founder," and the first of the Burgundian dynasty, which ruled until 1385.
       The emergence of Portugal in the 12th century as a separate monarchy in Iberia occurred before the Christian Reconquest of the peninsula. In the 1140s, the pope in Rome recognized Afonso Henriques as king of Portugal. In 1147, after a long, bloody siege, Muslim-occupied Lisbon fell to Afonso Henriques's army. Lisbon was the greatest prize of the 500-year war. Assisting this effort were English crusaders on their way to the Holy Land; the first bishop of Lisbon was an Englishman. When the Portuguese captured Faro and Silves in the Algarve province in 1248-50, the Reconquest of the extreme western portion of the Iberian peninsula was complete—significantly, more than two centuries before the Spanish crown completed the Reconquest of the eastern portion by capturing Granada in 1492.
       Consolidation and Independence of Burgundian Portugal, 1140-1385
       Two main themes of Portugal's early existence as a monarchy are the consolidation of control over the realm and the defeat of a Castil-ian threat from the east to its independence. At the end of this period came the birth of a new royal dynasty (Aviz), which prepared to carry the Christian Reconquest beyond continental Portugal across the straits of Gibraltar to North Africa. There was a variety of motives behind these developments. Portugal's independent existence was imperiled by threats from neighboring Iberian kingdoms to the north and east. Politics were dominated not only by efforts against the Muslims in
       Portugal (until 1250) and in nearby southern Spain (until 1492), but also by internecine warfare among the kingdoms of Castile, Léon, Aragon, and Portugal. A final comeback of Muslim forces was defeated at the battle of Salado (1340) by allied Castilian and Portuguese forces. In the emerging Kingdom of Portugal, the monarch gradually gained power over and neutralized the nobility and the Church.
       The historic and commonplace Portuguese saying "From Spain, neither a good wind nor a good marriage" was literally played out in diplomacy and war in the late 14th-century struggles for mastery in the peninsula. Larger, more populous Castile was pitted against smaller Portugal. Castile's Juan I intended to force a union between Castile and Portugal during this era of confusion and conflict. In late 1383, Portugal's King Fernando, the last king of the Burgundian dynasty, suddenly died prematurely at age 38, and the Master of Aviz, Portugal's most powerful nobleman, took up the cause of independence and resistance against Castile's invasion. The Master of Aviz, who became King João I of Portugal, was able to obtain foreign assistance. With the aid of English archers, Joao's armies defeated the Castilians in the crucial battle of Aljubarrota, on 14 August 1385, a victory that assured the independence of the Portuguese monarchy from its Castilian nemesis for several centuries.
       Aviz Dynasty and Portugal's First Overseas Empire, 1385-1580
       The results of the victory at Aljubarrota, much celebrated in Portugal's art and monuments, and the rise of the Aviz dynasty also helped to establish a new merchant class in Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal's second city. This group supported King João I's program of carrying the Reconquest to North Africa, since it was interested in expanding Portugal's foreign commerce and tapping into Muslim trade routes and resources in Africa. With the Reconquest against the Muslims completed in Portugal and the threat from Castile thwarted for the moment, the Aviz dynasty launched an era of overseas conquest, exploration, and trade. These efforts dominated Portugal's 15th and 16th centuries.
       The overseas empire and age of Discoveries began with Portugal's bold conquest in 1415 of the Moroccan city of Ceuta. One royal member of the 1415 expedition was young, 21-year-old Prince Henry, later known in history as "Prince Henry the Navigator." His part in the capture of Ceuta won Henry his knighthood and began Portugal's "Marvelous Century," during which the small kingdom was counted as a European and world power of consequence. Henry was the son of King João I and his English queen, Philippa of Lancaster, but he did not inherit the throne. Instead, he spent most of his life and his fortune, and that of the wealthy military Order of Christ, on various imperial ventures and on voyages of exploration down the African coast and into the Atlantic. While mythology has surrounded Henry's controversial role in the Discoveries, and this role has been exaggerated, there is no doubt that he played a vital part in the initiation of Portugal's first overseas empire and in encouraging exploration. He was naturally curious, had a sense of mission for Portugal, and was a strong leader. He also had wealth to expend; at least a third of the African voyages of the time were under his sponsorship. If Prince Henry himself knew little science, significant scientific advances in navigation were made in his day.
       What were Portugal's motives for this new imperial effort? The well-worn historical cliche of "God, Glory, and Gold" can only partly explain the motivation of a small kingdom with few natural resources and barely 1 million people, which was greatly outnumbered by the other powers it confronted. Among Portuguese objectives were the desire to exploit known North African trade routes and resources (gold, wheat, leather, weaponry, and other goods that were scarce in Iberia); the need to outflank the Muslim world in the Mediterranean by sailing around Africa, attacking Muslims en route; and the wish to ally with Christian kingdoms beyond Africa. This enterprise also involved a strategy of breaking the Venetian spice monopoly by trading directly with the East by means of discovering and exploiting a sea route around Africa to Asia. Besides the commercial motives, Portugal nurtured a strong crusading sense of Christian mission, and various classes in the kingdom saw an opportunity for fame and gain.
       By the time of Prince Henry's death in 1460, Portugal had gained control of the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeiras, begun to colonize the Cape Verde Islands, failed to conquer the Canary Islands from Castile, captured various cities on Morocco's coast, and explored as far as Senegal, West Africa, down the African coast. By 1488, Bar-tolomeu Dias had rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa and thereby discovered the way to the Indian Ocean.
       Portugal's largely coastal African empire and later its fragile Asian empire brought unexpected wealth but were purchased at a high price. Costs included wars of conquest and defense against rival powers, manning the far-flung navel and trade fleets and scattered castle-fortresses, and staffing its small but fierce armies, all of which entailed a loss of skills and population to maintain a scattered empire. Always short of capital, the monarchy became indebted to bankers. There were many defeats beginning in the 16th century at the hands of the larger imperial European monarchies (Spain, France, England, and Holland) and many attacks on Portugal and its strung-out empire. Typically, there was also the conflict that arose when a tenuously held world empire that rarely if ever paid its way demanded finance and manpower Portugal itself lacked.
       The first 80 years of the glorious imperial era, the golden age of Portugal's imperial power and world influence, was an African phase. During 1415-88, Portuguese navigators and explorers in small ships, some of them caravelas (caravels), explored the treacherous, disease-ridden coasts of Africa from Morocco to South Africa beyond the Cape of Good Hope. By the 1470s, the Portuguese had reached the Gulf of Guinea and, in the early 1480s, what is now Angola. Bartolomeu Dias's extraordinary voyage of 1487-88 to South Africa's coast and the edge of the Indian Ocean convinced Portugal that the best route to Asia's spices and Christians lay south, around the tip of southern Africa. Between 1488 and 1495, there was a hiatus caused in part by domestic conflict in Portugal, discussion of resources available for further conquests beyond Africa in Asia, and serious questions as to Portugal's capacity to reach beyond Africa. In 1495, King Manuel and his council decided to strike for Asia, whatever the consequences. In 1497-99, Vasco da Gama, under royal orders, made the epic two-year voyage that discovered the sea route to western India (Asia), outflanked Islam and Venice, and began Portugal's Asian empire. Within 50 years, Portugal had discovered and begun the exploitation of its largest colony, Brazil, and set up forts and trading posts from the Middle East (Aden and Ormuz), India (Calicut, Goa, etc.), Malacca, and Indonesia to Macau in China.
       By the 1550s, parts of its largely coastal, maritime trading post empire from Morocco to the Moluccas were under siege from various hostile forces, including Muslims, Christians, and Hindi. Although Moroccan forces expelled the Portuguese from the major coastal cities by 1550, the rival European monarchies of Castile (Spain), England, France, and later Holland began to seize portions of her undermanned, outgunned maritime empire.
       In 1580, Phillip II of Spain, whose mother was a Portuguese princess and who had a strong claim to the Portuguese throne, invaded Portugal, claimed the throne, and assumed control over the realm and, by extension, its African, Asian, and American empires. Phillip II filled the power vacuum that appeared in Portugal following the loss of most of Portugal's army and its young, headstrong King Sebastião in a disastrous war in Morocco. Sebastiao's death in battle (1578) and the lack of a natural heir to succeed him, as well as the weak leadership of the cardinal who briefly assumed control in Lisbon, led to a crisis that Spain's strong monarch exploited. As a result, Portugal lost its independence to Spain for a period of 60 years.
       Portugal under Spanish Rule, 1580-1640
       Despite the disastrous nature of Portugal's experience under Spanish rule, "The Babylonian Captivity" gave birth to modern Portuguese nationalism, its second overseas empire, and its modern alliance system with England. Although Spain allowed Portugal's weakened empire some autonomy, Spanish rule in Portugal became increasingly burdensome and unacceptable. Spain's ambitious imperial efforts in Europe and overseas had an impact on the Portuguese as Spain made greater and greater demands on its smaller neighbor for manpower and money. Portugal's culture underwent a controversial Castilianization, while its empire became hostage to Spain's fortunes. New rival powers England, France, and Holland attacked and took parts of Spain's empire and at the same time attacked Portugal's empire, as well as the mother country.
       Portugal's empire bore the consequences of being attacked by Spain's bitter enemies in what was a form of world war. Portuguese losses were heavy. By 1640, Portugal had lost most of its Moroccan cities as well as Ceylon, the Moluccas, and sections of India. With this, Portugal's Asian empire was gravely weakened. Only Goa, Damão, Diu, Bombay, Timor, and Macau remained and, in Brazil, Dutch forces occupied the northeast.
       On 1 December 1640, long commemorated as a national holiday, Portuguese rebels led by the duke of Braganza overthrew Spanish domination and took advantage of Spanish weakness following a more serious rebellion in Catalonia. Portugal regained independence from Spain, but at a price: dependence on foreign assistance to maintain its independence in the form of the renewal of the alliance with England.
       Restoration and Second Empire, 1640-1822
       Foreign affairs and empire dominated the restoration era and aftermath, and Portugal again briefly enjoyed greater European power and prestige. The Anglo-Portuguese Alliance was renewed and strengthened in treaties of 1642, 1654, and 1661, and Portugal's independence from Spain was underwritten by English pledges and armed assistance. In a Luso-Spanish treaty of 1668, Spain recognized Portugal's independence. Portugal's alliance with England was a marriage of convenience and necessity between two monarchies with important religious, cultural, and social differences. In return for legal, diplomatic, and trade privileges, as well as the use during war and peace of Portugal's great Lisbon harbor and colonial ports for England's navy, England pledged to protect Portugal and its scattered empire from any attack. The previously cited 17th-century alliance treaties were renewed later in the Treaty of Windsor, signed in London in 1899. On at least 10 different occasions after 1640, and during the next two centuries, England was central in helping prevent or repel foreign invasions of its ally, Portugal.
       Portugal's second empire (1640-1822) was largely Brazil-oriented. Portuguese colonization, exploitation of wealth, and emigration focused on Portuguese America, and imperial revenues came chiefly from Brazil. Between 1670 and 1740, Portugal's royalty and nobility grew wealthier on funds derived from Brazilian gold, diamonds, sugar, tobacco, and other crops, an enterprise supported by the Atlantic slave trade and the supply of African slave labor from West Africa and Angola. Visitors today can see where much of that wealth was invested: Portugal's rich legacy of monumental architecture. Meanwhile, the African slave trade took a toll in Angola and West Africa.
       In continental Portugal, absolutist monarchy dominated politics and government, and there was a struggle for position and power between the monarchy and other institutions, such as the Church and nobility. King José I's chief minister, usually known in history as the marquis of Pombal (ruled 1750-77), sharply suppressed the nobility and the
       Church (including the Inquisition, now a weak institution) and expelled the Jesuits. Pombal also made an effort to reduce economic dependence on England, Portugal's oldest ally. But his successes did not last much beyond his disputed time in office.
       Beginning in the late 18th century, the European-wide impact of the French Revolution and the rise of Napoleon placed Portugal in a vulnerable position. With the monarchy ineffectively led by an insane queen (Maria I) and her indecisive regent son (João VI), Portugal again became the focus of foreign ambition and aggression. With England unable to provide decisive assistance in time, France—with Spain's consent—invaded Portugal in 1807. As Napoleon's army under General Junot entered Lisbon meeting no resistance, Portugal's royal family fled on a British fleet to Brazil, where it remained in exile until 1821. In the meantime, Portugal's overseas empire was again under threat. There was a power vacuum as the monarch was absent, foreign armies were present, and new political notions of liberalism and constitutional monarchy were exciting various groups of citizens.
       Again England came to the rescue, this time in the form of the armies of the duke of Wellington. Three successive French invasions of Portugal were defeated and expelled, and Wellington succeeded in carrying the war against Napoleon across the Portuguese frontier into Spain. The presence of the English army, the new French-born liberal ideas, and the political vacuum combined to create revolutionary conditions. The French invasions and the peninsular wars, where Portuguese armed forces played a key role, marked the beginning of a new era in politics.
       Liberalism and Constitutional Monarchy, 1822-1910
       During 1807-22, foreign invasions, war, and civil strife over conflicting political ideas gravely damaged Portugal's commerce, economy, and novice industry. The next terrible blow was the loss of Brazil in 1822, the jewel in the imperial crown. Portugal's very independence seemed to be at risk. In vain, Portugal sought to resist Brazilian independence by force, but in 1825 it formally acknowledged Brazilian independence by treaty.
       Portugal's slow recovery from the destructive French invasions and the "war of independence" was complicated by civil strife over the form of constitutional monarchy that best suited Portugal. After struggles over these issues between 1820 and 1834, Portugal settled somewhat uncertainly into a moderate constitutional monarchy whose constitution (Charter of 1826) lent it strong political powers to exert a moderating influence between the executive and legislative branches of the government. It also featured a new upper middle class based on land ownership and commerce; a Catholic Church that, although still important, lived with reduced privileges and property; a largely African (third) empire to which Lisbon and Oporto devoted increasing spiritual and material resources, starting with the liberal imperial plans of 1836 and 1851, and continuing with the work of institutions like the Lisbon Society of Geography (established 1875); and a mass of rural peasants whose bonds to the land weakened after 1850 and who began to immigrate in increasing numbers to Brazil and North America.
       Chronic military intervention in national politics began in 19th-century Portugal. Such intervention, usually commencing with coups or pronunciamentos (military revolts), was a shortcut to the spoils of political office and could reflect popular discontent as well as the power of personalities. An early example of this was the 1817 golpe (coup) attempt of General Gomes Freire against British military rule in Portugal before the return of King João VI from Brazil. Except for a more stable period from 1851 to 1880, military intervention in politics, or the threat thereof, became a feature of the constitutional monarchy's political life, and it continued into the First Republic and the subsequent Estado Novo.
       Beginning with the Regeneration period (1851-80), Portugal experienced greater political stability and economic progress. Military intervention in politics virtually ceased; industrialization and construction of railroads, roads, and bridges proceeded; two political parties (Regenerators and Historicals) worked out a system of rotation in power; and leading intellectuals sparked a cultural revival in several fields. In 19th-century literature, there was a new golden age led by such figures as Alexandre Herculano (historian), Eça de Queirós (novelist), Almeida Garrett (playwright and essayist), Antero de Quental (poet), and Joaquim Oliveira Martins (historian and social scientist). In its third overseas empire, Portugal attempted to replace the slave trade and slavery with legitimate economic activities; to reform the administration; and to expand Portuguese holdings beyond coastal footholds deep into the African hinterlands in West, West Central, and East Africa. After 1841, to some extent, and especially after 1870, colonial affairs, combined with intense nationalism, pressures for economic profit in Africa, sentiment for national revival, and the drift of European affairs would make or break Lisbon governments.
       Beginning with the political crisis that arose out of the "English Ultimatum" affair of January 1890, the monarchy became discredtted and identified with the poorly functioning government, political parties splintered, and republicanism found more supporters. Portugal participated in the "Scramble for Africa," expanding its African holdings, but failed to annex territory connecting Angola and Mozambique. A growing foreign debt and state bankruptcy as of the early 1890s damaged the constitutional monarchy's reputation, despite the efforts of King Carlos in diplomacy, the renewal of the alliance in the Windsor Treaty of 1899, and the successful if bloody colonial wars in the empire (1880-97). Republicanism proclaimed that Portugal's weak economy and poor society were due to two historic institutions: the monarchy and the Catholic Church. A republic, its stalwarts claimed, would bring greater individual liberty; efficient, if more decentralized government; and a stronger colonial program while stripping the Church of its role in both society and education.
       As the monarchy lost support and republicans became more aggressive, violence increased in politics. King Carlos I and his heir Luís were murdered in Lisbon by anarchist-republicans on 1 February 1908. Following a military and civil insurrection and fighting between monarchist and republican forces, on 5 October 1910, King Manuel II fled Portugal and a republic was proclaimed.
       First Parliamentary Republic, 1910-26
       Portugal's first attempt at republican government was the most unstable, turbulent parliamentary republic in the history of 20th-century Western Europe. During a little under 16 years of the republic, there were 45 governments, a number of legislatures that did not complete normal terms, military coups, and only one president who completed his four-year term in office. Portuguese society was poorly prepared for this political experiment. Among the deadly legacies of the monarchy were a huge public debt; a largely rural, apolitical, and illiterate peasant population; conflict over the causes of the country's misfortunes; and lack of experience with a pluralist, democratic system.
       The republic had some talented leadership but lacked popular, institutional, and economic support. The 1911 republican constitution established only a limited democracy, as only a small portion of the adult male citizenry was eligible to vote. In a country where the majority was Catholic, the republic passed harshly anticlerical laws, and its institutions and supporters persecuted both the Church and its adherents. During its brief disjointed life, the First Republic drafted important reform plans in economic, social, and educational affairs; actively promoted development in the empire; and pursued a liberal, generous foreign policy. Following British requests for Portugal's assistance in World War I, Portugal entered the war on the Allied side in March 1916 and sent armies to Flanders and Portuguese Africa. Portugal's intervention in that conflict, however, was too costly in many respects, and the ultimate failure of the republic in part may be ascribed to Portugal's World War I activities.
       Unfortunately for the republic, its time coincided with new threats to Portugal's African possessions: World War I, social and political demands from various classes that could not be reconciled, excessive military intervention in politics, and, in particular, the worst economic and financial crisis Portugal had experienced since the 16th and 17th centuries. After the original Portuguese Republican Party (PRP, also known as the "Democrats") splintered into three warring groups in 1912, no true multiparty system emerged. The Democrats, except for only one or two elections, held an iron monopoly of electoral power, and political corruption became a major issue. As extreme right-wing dictatorships elsewhere in Europe began to take power in Italy (1922), neighboring Spain (1923), and Greece (1925), what scant popular support remained for the republic collapsed. Backed by a right-wing coalition of landowners from Alentejo, clergy, Coimbra University faculty and students, Catholic organizations, and big business, career military officers led by General Gomes da Costa executed a coup on 28 May 1926, turned out the last republican government, and established a military government.
       The Estado Novo (New State), 1926-74
       During the military phase (1926-32) of the Estado Novo, professional military officers, largely from the army, governed and administered Portugal and held key cabinet posts, but soon discovered that the military possessed no magic formula that could readily solve the problems inherited from the First Republic. Especially during the years 1926-31, the military dictatorship, even with its political repression of republican activities and institutions (military censorship of the press, political police action, and closure of the republic's rowdy parliament), was characterized by similar weaknesses: personalism and factionalism; military coups and political instability, including civil strife and loss of life; state debt and bankruptcy; and a weak economy. "Barracks parliamentarism" was not an acceptable alternative even to the "Nightmare Republic."
       Led by General Óscar Carmona, who had replaced and sent into exile General Gomes da Costa, the military dictatorship turned to a civilian expert in finance and economics to break the budget impasse and bring coherence to the disorganized system. Appointed minister of finance on 27 April 1928, the Coimbra University Law School professor of economics Antônio de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970) first reformed finance, helped balance the budget, and then turned to other concerns as he garnered extraordinary governing powers. In 1930, he was appointed interim head of another key ministry (Colonies) and within a few years had become, in effect, a civilian dictator who, with the military hierarchy's support, provided the government with coherence, a program, and a set of policies.
       For nearly 40 years after he was appointed the first civilian prime minister in 1932, Salazar's personality dominated the government. Unlike extreme right-wing dictators elsewhere in Europe, Salazar was directly appointed by the army but was never endorsed by a popular political party, street militia, or voter base. The scholarly, reclusive former Coimbra University professor built up what became known after 1932 as the Estado Novo ("New State"), which at the time of its overthrow by another military coup in 1974, was the longest surviving authoritarian regime in Western Europe. The system of Salazar and the largely academic and technocratic ruling group he gathered in his cabinets was based on the central bureaucracy of the state, which was supported by the president of the republic—always a senior career military officer, General Óscar Carmona (1928-51), General Craveiro Lopes (1951-58), and Admiral Américo Tómaz (1958-74)—and the complicity of various institutions. These included a rubber-stamp legislature called the National Assembly (1935-74) and a political police known under various names: PVDE (1932-45), PIDE (1945-69),
       and DGS (1969-74). Other defenders of the Estado Novo security were paramilitary organizations such as the National Republican Guard (GNR); the Portuguese Legion (PL); and the Portuguese Youth [Movement]. In addition to censorship of the media, theater, and books, there was political repression and a deliberate policy of depoliticization. All political parties except for the approved movement of regime loyalists, the União Nacional or (National Union), were banned.
       The most vigorous and more popular period of the New State was 1932-44, when the basic structures were established. Never monolithic or entirely the work of one person (Salazar), the New State was constructed with the assistance of several dozen top associates who were mainly academics from law schools, some technocrats with specialized skills, and a handful of trusted career military officers. The 1933 Constitution declared Portugal to be a "unitary, corporative Republic," and pressures to restore the monarchy were resisted. Although some of the regime's followers were fascists and pseudofascists, many more were conservative Catholics, integralists, nationalists, and monarchists of different varieties, and even some reactionary republicans. If the New State was authoritarian, it was not totalitarian and, unlike fascism in Benito Mussolini's Italy or Adolf Hitler's Germany, it usually employed the minimum of violence necessary to defeat what remained a largely fractious, incoherent opposition.
       With the tumultuous Second Republic and the subsequent civil war in nearby Spain, the regime felt threatened and reinforced its defenses. During what Salazar rightly perceived as a time of foreign policy crisis for Portugal (1936-45), he assumed control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From there, he pursued four basic foreign policy objectives: supporting the Nationalist rebels of General Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) and concluding defense treaties with a triumphant Franco; ensuring that General Franco in an exhausted Spain did not enter World War II on the Axis side; maintaining Portuguese neutrality in World War II with a post-1942 tilt toward the Allies, including granting Britain and the United States use of bases in the Azores Islands; and preserving and protecting Portugal's Atlantic Islands and its extensive, if poor, overseas empire in Africa and Asia.
       During the middle years of the New State (1944-58), many key Salazar associates in government either died or resigned, and there was greater social unrest in the form of unprecedented strikes and clandestine Communist activities, intensified opposition, and new threatening international pressures on Portugal's overseas empire. During the earlier phase of the Cold War (1947-60), Portugal became a steadfast, if weak, member of the US-dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance and, in 1955, with American support, Portugal joined the United Nations (UN). Colonial affairs remained a central concern of the regime. As of 1939, Portugal was the third largest colonial power in the world and possessed territories in tropical Africa (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe Islands) and the remnants of its 16th-century empire in Asia (Goa, Damão, Diu, East Timor, and Macau). Beginning in the early 1950s, following the independence of India in 1947, Portugal resisted Indian pressures to decolonize Portuguese India and used police forces to discourage internal opposition in its Asian and African colonies.
       The later years of the New State (1958-68) witnessed the aging of the increasingly isolated but feared Salazar and new threats both at home and overseas. Although the regime easily overcame the brief oppositionist threat from rival presidential candidate General Humberto Delgado in the spring of 1958, new developments in the African and Asian empires imperiled the authoritarian system. In February 1961, oppositionists hijacked the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria and, in following weeks, African insurgents in northern Angola, although they failed to expel the Portuguese, gained worldwide media attention, discredited the New State, and began the 13-year colonial war. After thwarting a dissident military coup against his continued leadership, Salazar and his ruling group mobilized military repression in Angola and attempted to develop the African colonies at a faster pace in order to ensure Portuguese control. Meanwhile, the other European colonial powers (Britain, France, Belgium, and Spain) rapidly granted political independence to their African territories.
       At the time of Salazar's removal from power in September 1968, following a stroke, Portugal's efforts to maintain control over its colonies appeared to be successful. President Americo Tomás appointed Dr. Marcello Caetano as Salazar's successor as prime minister. While maintaining the New State's basic structures, and continuing the regime's essential colonial policy, Caetano attempted wider reforms in colonial administration and some devolution of power from Lisbon, as well as more freedom of expression in Lisbon. Still, a great deal of the budget was devoted to supporting the wars against the insurgencies in Africa. Meanwhile in Asia, Portuguese India had fallen when the Indian army invaded in December 1961. The loss of Goa was a psychological blow to the leadership of the New State, and of the Asian empire only East Timor and Macau remained.
       The Caetano years (1968-74) were but a hiatus between the waning Salazar era and a new regime. There was greater political freedom and rapid economic growth (5-6 percent annually to late 1973), but Caetano's government was unable to reform the old system thoroughly and refused to consider new methods either at home or in the empire. In the end, regime change came from junior officers of the professional military who organized the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) against the Caetano government. It was this group of several hundred officers, mainly in the army and navy, which engineered a largely bloodless coup in Lisbon on 25 April 1974. Their unexpected action brought down the 48-year-old New State and made possible the eventual establishment and consolidation of democratic governance in Portugal, as well as a reorientation of the country away from the Atlantic toward Europe.
       Revolution of Carnations, 1974-76
       Following successful military operations of the Armed Forces Movement against the Caetano government, Portugal experienced what became known as the "Revolution of Carnations." It so happened that during the rainy week of the military golpe, Lisbon flower shops were featuring carnations, and the revolutionaries and their supporters adopted the red carnation as the common symbol of the event, as well as of the new freedom from dictatorship. The MFA, whose leaders at first were mostly little-known majors and captains, proclaimed a three-fold program of change for the new Portugal: democracy; decolonization of the overseas empire, after ending the colonial wars; and developing a backward economy in the spirit of opportunity and equality. During the first 24 months after the coup, there was civil strife, some anarchy, and a power struggle. With the passing of the Estado Novo, public euphoria burst forth as the new provisional military government proclaimed the freedoms of speech, press, and assembly, and abolished censorship, the political police, the Portuguese Legion, Portuguese Youth, and other New State organizations, including the National Union. Scores of political parties were born and joined the senior political party, the Portuguese Community Party (PCP), and the Socialist Party (PS), founded shortly before the coup.
       Portugal's Revolution of Carnations went through several phases. There was an attempt to take control by radical leftists, including the PCP and its allies. This was thwarted by moderate officers in the army, as well as by the efforts of two political parties: the PS and the Social Democrats (PPD, later PSD). The first phase was from April to September 1974. Provisional president General Antonio Spínola, whose 1974 book Portugal and the Future had helped prepare public opinion for the coup, met irresistible leftist pressures. After Spinola's efforts to avoid rapid decolonization of the African empire failed, he resigned in September 1974. During the second phase, from September 1974 to March 1975, radical military officers gained control, but a coup attempt by General Spínola and his supporters in Lisbon in March 1975 failed and Spínola fled to Spain.
       In the third phase of the Revolution, March-November 1975, a strong leftist reaction followed. Farm workers occupied and "nationalized" 1.1 million hectares of farmland in the Alentejo province, and radical military officers in the provisional government ordered the nationalization of Portuguese banks (foreign banks were exempted), utilities, and major industries, or about 60 percent of the economic system. There were power struggles among various political parties — a total of 50 emerged—and in the streets there was civil strife among labor, military, and law enforcement groups. A constituent assembly, elected on 25 April 1975, in Portugal's first free elections since 1926, drafted a democratic constitution. The Council of the Revolution (CR), briefly a revolutionary military watchdog committee, was entrenched as part of the government under the constitution, until a later revision. During the chaotic year of 1975, about 30 persons were killed in political frays while unstable provisional governments came and went. On 25 November 1975, moderate military forces led by Colonel Ramalho Eanes, who later was twice elected president of the republic (1976 and 1981), defeated radical, leftist military groups' revolutionary conspiracies.
       In the meantime, Portugal's scattered overseas empire experienced a precipitous and unprepared decolonization. One by one, the former colonies were granted and accepted independence—Guinea-Bissau (September 1974), Cape Verde Islands (July 1975), and Mozambique (July 1975). Portugal offered to turn over Macau to the People's Republic of China, but the offer was refused then and later negotiations led to the establishment of a formal decolonization or hand-over date of 1999. But in two former colonies, the process of decolonization had tragic results.
       In Angola, decolonization negotiations were greatly complicated by the fact that there were three rival nationalist movements in a struggle for power. The January 1975 Alvor Agreement signed by Portugal and these three parties was not effectively implemented. A bloody civil war broke out in Angola in the spring of 1975 and, when Portuguese armed forces withdrew and declared that Angola was independent on 11 November 1975, the bloodshed only increased. Meanwhile, most of the white Portuguese settlers from Angola and Mozambique fled during the course of 1975. Together with African refugees, more than 600,000 of these retornados ("returned ones") went by ship and air to Portugal and thousands more to Namibia, South Africa, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
       The second major decolonization disaster was in Portugal's colony of East Timor in the Indonesian archipelago. Portugal's capacity to supervise and control a peaceful transition to independence in this isolated, neglected colony was limited by the strength of giant Indonesia, distance from Lisbon, and Portugal's revolutionary disorder and inability to defend Timor. In early December 1975, before Portugal granted formal independence and as one party, FRETILIN, unilaterally declared East Timor's independence, Indonesia's armed forces invaded, conquered, and annexed East Timor. Indonesian occupation encountered East Timorese resistance, and a heavy loss of life followed. The East Timor question remained a contentious international issue in the UN, as well as in Lisbon and Jakarta, for more than 20 years following Indonesia's invasion and annexation of the former colony of Portugal. Major changes occurred, beginning in 1998, after Indonesia underwent a political revolution and allowed a referendum in East Timor to decide that territory's political future in August 1999. Most East Timorese chose independence, but Indonesian forces resisted that verdict until
       UN intervention in September 1999. Following UN rule for several years, East Timor attained full independence on 20 May 2002.
       Consolidation of Democracy, 1976-2000
       After several free elections and record voter turnouts between 25 April 1975 and June 1976, civil war was averted and Portugal's second democratic republic began to stabilize. The MFA was dissolved, the military were returned to the barracks, and increasingly elected civilians took over the government of the country. The 1976 Constitution was revised several times beginning in 1982 and 1989, in order to reempha-size the principle of free enterprise in the economy while much of the large, nationalized sector was privatized. In June 1976, General Ram-alho Eanes was elected the first constitutional president of the republic (five-year term), and he appointed socialist leader Dr. Mário Soares as prime minister of the first constitutional government.
       From 1976 to 1985, Portugal's new system featured a weak economy and finances, labor unrest, and administrative and political instability. The difficult consolidation of democratic governance was eased in part by the strong currency and gold reserves inherited from the Estado Novo, but Lisbon seemed unable to cope with high unemployment, new debt, the complex impact of the refugees from Africa, world recession, and the agitation of political parties. Four major parties emerged from the maelstrom of 1974-75, except for the Communist Party, all newly founded. They were, from left to right, the Communists (PCP); the Socialists (PS), who managed to dominate governments and the legislature but not win a majority in the Assembly of the Republic; the Social Democrats (PSD); and the Christian Democrats (CDS). During this period, the annual growth rate was low (l-2 percent), and the nationalized sector of the economy stagnated.
       Enhanced economic growth, greater political stability, and more effective central government as of 1985, and especially 1987, were due to several developments. In 1977, Portugal applied for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC), now the European Union (EU) since 1993. In January 1986, with Spain, Portugal was granted membership, and economic and financial progress in the intervening years has been significantly influenced by the comparatively large investment, loans, technology, advice, and other assistance from the EEC. Low unemployment, high annual growth rates (5 percent), and moderate inflation have also been induced by the new political and administrative stability in Lisbon. Led by Prime Minister Cavaco Silva, an economist who was trained abroad, the PSD's strong organization, management, and electoral support since 1985 have assisted in encouraging economic recovery and development. In 1985, the PSD turned the PS out of office and won the general election, although they did not have an absolute majority of assembly seats. In 1986, Mário Soares was elected president of the republic, the first civilian to hold that office since the First Republic. In the elections of 1987 and 1991, however, the PSD was returned to power with clear majorities of over 50 percent of the vote.
       Although the PSD received 50.4 percent of the vote in the 1991 parliamentary elections and held a 42-seat majority in the Assembly of the Republic, the party began to lose public support following media revelations regarding corruption and complaints about Prime Minister Cavaco Silva's perceived arrogant leadership style. President Mário Soares voiced criticism of the PSD's seemingly untouchable majority and described a "tyranny of the majority." Economic growth slowed down. In the parliamentary elections of 1995 and the presidential election of 1996, the PSD's dominance ended for the time being. Prime Minister Antônio Guterres came to office when the PS won the October 1995 elections, and in the subsequent presidential contest, in January 1996, socialist Jorge Sampaio, the former mayor of Lisbon, was elected president of the republic, thus defeating Cavaco Silva's bid. Young and popular, Guterres moved the PS toward the center of the political spectrum. Under Guterres, the PS won the October 1999 parliamentary elections. The PS defeated the PSD but did not manage to win a clear, working majority of seats, and this made the PS dependent upon alliances with smaller parties, including the PCP.
       In the local elections in December 2001, the PSD's criticism of PS's heavy public spending allowed the PSD to take control of the key cities of Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra. Guterres resigned, and parliamentary elections were brought forward from 2004 to March 2002. The PSD won a narrow victory with 40 percent of the votes, and Jose Durão Barroso became prime minister. Having failed to win a majority of the seats in parliament forced the PSD to govern in coalition with the right-wing Popular Party (PP) led by Paulo Portas. Durão Barroso set about reducing government spending by cutting the budgets of local authorities, freezing civil service hiring, and reviving the economy by accelerating privatization of state-owned enterprises. These measures provoked a 24-hour strike by public-sector workers. Durão Barroso reacted with vows to press ahead with budget-cutting measures and imposed a wage freeze on all employees earning more than €1,000, which affected more than one-half of Portugal's work force.
       In June 2004, Durão Barroso was invited by Romano Prodi to succeed him as president of the European Commission. Durão Barroso accepted and resigned the prime ministership in July. Pedro Santana Lopes, the leader of the PSD, became prime minister. Already unpopular at the time of Durão Barroso's resignation, the PSD-led government became increasingly unpopular under Santana Lopes. A month-long delay in the start of the school year and confusion over his plan to cut taxes and raise public-sector salaries, eroded confidence even more. By November, Santana Lopes's government was so unpopular that President Jorge Sampaio was obliged to dissolve parliament and hold new elections, two years ahead of schedule.
       Parliamentary elections were held on 20 February 2005. The PS, which had promised the electorate disciplined and transparent governance, educational reform, the alleviation of poverty, and a boost in employment, won 45 percent of the vote and the majority of the seats in parliament. The leader of the PS, José Sôcrates became prime minister on 12 March 2005. In the regularly scheduled presidential elections held on 6 January 2006, the former leader of the PSD and prime minister, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, won a narrow victory and became president on 9 March 2006. With a mass protest, public teachers' strike, and street demonstrations in March 2008, Portugal's media, educational, and social systems experienced more severe pressures. With the spreading global recession beginning in September 2008, Portugal's economic and financial systems became more troubled.
       Owing to its geographic location on the southwestern most edge of continental Europe, Portugal has been historically in but not of Europe. Almost from the beginning of its existence in the 12th century as an independent monarchy, Portugal turned its back on Europe and oriented itself toward the Atlantic Ocean. After carving out a Christian kingdom on the western portion of the Iberian peninsula, Portuguese kings gradually built and maintained a vast seaborne global empire that became central to the way Portugal understood its individuality as a nation-state. While the creation of this empire allows Portugal to claim an unusual number of "firsts" or distinctions in world and Western history, it also retarded Portugal's economic, social, and political development. It can be reasonably argued that the Revolution of 25 April 1974 was the most decisive event in Portugal's long history because it finally ended Portugal's oceanic mission and view of itself as an imperial power. After the 1974 Revolution, Portugal turned away from its global mission and vigorously reoriented itself toward Europe. Contemporary Portugal is now both in and of Europe.
       The turn toward Europe began immediately after 25 April 1974. Portugal granted independence to its African colonies in 1975. It was admitted to the European Council and took the first steps toward accession to the European Economic Community (EEC) in 1976. On 28 March 1977, the Portuguese government officially applied for EEC membership. Because of Portugal's economic and social backwardness, which would require vast sums of EEC money to overcome, negotiations for membership were long and difficult. Finally, a treaty of accession was signed on 12 June 1985. Portugal officially joined the EEC (the European Union [EU] since 1993) on 1 January 1986. Since becoming a full-fledged member of the EU, Portugal has been steadily overcoming the economic and social underdevelopment caused by its imperial past and is becoming more like the rest of Europe.
       Membership in the EU has speeded up the structural transformation of Portugal's economy, which actually began during the Estado Novo. Investments made by the Estado Novo in Portugal's economy began to shift employment out of the agricultural sector, which, in 1950, accounted for 50 percent of Portugal's economically active population. Today, only 10 percent of the economically active population is employed in the agricultural sector (the highest among EU member states); 30 percent in the industrial sector (also the highest among EU member states); and 60 percent in the service sector (the lowest among EU member states). The economically active population numbers about 5,000,000 employed, 56 percent of whom are women. Women workers are the majority of the workforce in the agricultural and service sectors (the highest among the EU member states). The expansion of the service sector has been primarily in health care and education. Portugal has had the lowest unemployment rates among EU member states, with the overall rate never being more than 10 percent of the active population. Since joining the EU, the number of employers increased from 2.6 percent to 5.8 percent of the active population; self-employed from 16 to 19 percent; and employees from 65 to 70 percent. Twenty-six percent of the employers are women. Unemployment tends to hit younger workers in industry and transportation, women employed in domestic service, workers on short-term contracts, and poorly educated workers. Salaried workers earn only 63 percent of the EU average, and hourly workers only one-third to one-half of that earned by their EU counterparts. Despite having had the second highest growth of gross national product (GNP) per inhabitant (after Ireland) among EU member states, the above data suggest that while much has been accomplished in terms of modernizing the Portuguese economy, much remains to be done to bring Portugal's economy up to the level of the "average" EU member state.
       Membership in the EU has also speeded up changes in Portuguese society. Over the last 30 years, coastalization and urbanization have intensified. Fully 50 percent of Portuguese live in the coastal urban conurbations of Lisbon, Oporto, Braga, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Évora, and Faro. The Portuguese population is one of the oldest among EU member states (17.3 percent are 65 years of age or older) thanks to a considerable increase in life expectancy at birth (77.87 years for the total population, 74.6 years for men, 81.36 years for women) and one of the lowest birthrates (10.59 births/1,000) in Europe. Family size averages 2.8 persons per household, with the strict nuclear family (one or two generations) in which both parents work being typical. Common law marriages, cohabitating couples, and single-parent households are more and more common. The divorce rate has also increased. "Youth Culture" has developed. The young have their own meeting places, leisure-time activities, and nightlife (bars, clubs, and discos).
       All Portuguese citizens, whether they have contributed or not, have a right to an old-age pension, invalidity benefits, widowed persons' pension, as well as payments for disabilities, children, unemployment, and large families. There is a national minimum wage (€385 per month), which is low by EU standards. The rapid aging of Portugal's population has changed the ratio of contributors to pensioners to 1.7, the lowest in the EU. This has created deficits in Portugal's social security fund.
       The adult literacy rate is about 92 percent. Illiteracy is still found among the elderly. Although universal compulsory education up to grade 9 was achieved in 1980, only 21.2 percent of the population aged 25-64 had undergone secondary education, compared to an EU average of 65.7 percent. Portugal's higher education system currently consists of 14 state universities and 14 private universities, 15 state polytechnic institutions, one Catholic university, and one military academy. All in all, Portugal spends a greater percentage of its state budget on education than most EU member states. Despite this high level of expenditure, the troubled Portuguese education system does not perform well. Early leaving and repetition rates are among the highest among EU member states.
       After the Revolution of 25 April 1974, Portugal created a National Health Service, which today consists of 221 hospitals and 512 medical centers employing 33,751 doctors and 41,799 nurses. Like its education system, Portugal's medical system is inefficient. There are long waiting lists for appointments with specialists and for surgical procedures.
       Structural changes in Portugal's economy and society mean that social life in Portugal is not too different from that in other EU member states. A mass consumption society has been created. Televisions, telephones, refrigerators, cars, music equipment, mobile phones, and personal computers are commonplace. Sixty percent of Portuguese households possess at least one automobile, and 65 percent of Portuguese own their own home. Portuguese citizens are more aware of their legal rights than ever before. This has resulted in a trebling of the number of legal proceeding since 1960 and an eight-fold increase in the number of lawyers. In general, Portuguese society has become more permissive and secular; the Catholic Church and the armed forces are much less influential than in the past. Portugal's population is also much more culturally, religiously, and ethnically diverse, a consequence of the coming to Portugal of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from former African colonies.
       Portuguese are becoming more cosmopolitan and sophisticated through the impact of world media, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. A prime case in point came in the summer and early fall of 1999, with the extraordinary events in East Timor and the massive Portuguese popular responses. An internationally monitored referendum in East Timor, Portugal's former colony in the Indonesian archipelago and under Indonesian occupation from late 1975 to summer 1999, resulted in a vote of 78.5 percent for rejecting integration with Indonesia and for independence. When Indonesian prointegration gangs, aided by the Indonesian military, responded to the referendum with widespread brutality and threatened to reverse the verdict of the referendum, there was a spontaneous popular outpouring of protest in the cities and towns of Portugal. An avalanche of Portuguese e-mail fell on leaders and groups in the UN and in certain countries around the world as Portugal's diplomats, perhaps to compensate for the weak initial response to Indonesian armed aggression in 1975, called for the protection of East Timor as an independent state and for UN intervention to thwart Indonesian action. Using global communications networks, the Portuguese were able to mobilize UN and world public opinion against Indonesian actions and aided the eventual independence of East Timor on 20 May 2002.
       From the Revolution of 25 April 1974 until the 1990s, Portugal had a large number of political parties, one of the largest Communist parties in western Europe, frequent elections, and endemic cabinet instability. Since the 1990s, the number of political parties has been dramatically reduced and cabinet stability increased. Gradually, the Portuguese electorate has concentrated around two larger parties, the right-of-center Social Democrats (PSD) and the left-of-center Socialist (PS). In the 1980s, these two parties together garnered 65 percent of the vote and 70 percent of the seats in parliament. In 2005, these percentages had risen to 74 percent and 85 percent, respectively. In effect, Portugal is currently a two-party dominant system in which the two largest parties — PS and PSD—alternate in and out of power, not unlike the rotation of the two main political parties (the Regenerators and the Historicals) during the last decades (1850s to 1880s) of the liberal constitutional monarchy. As Portugal's democracy has consolidated, turnout rates for the eligible electorate have declined. In the 1970s, turnout was 85 percent. In Portugal's most recent parliamentary election (2005), turnout had fallen to 65 percent of the eligible electorate.
       Portugal has benefited greatly from membership in the EU, and whatever doubts remain about the price paid for membership, no Portuguese government in the near future can afford to sever this connection. The vast majority of Portuguese citizens see membership in the EU as a "good thing" and strongly believe that Portugal has benefited from membership. Only the Communist Party opposed membership because it reduces national sovereignty, serves the interests of capitalists not workers, and suffers from a democratic deficit. Despite the high level of support for the EU, Portuguese voters are increasingly not voting in elections for the European Parliament, however. Turnout for European Parliament elections fell from 40 percent of the eligible electorate in the 1999 elections to 38 percent in the 2004 elections.
       In sum, Portugal's turn toward Europe has done much to overcome its backwardness. However, despite the economic, social, and political progress made since 1986, Portugal has a long way to go before it can claim to be on a par with the level found even in Spain, much less the rest of western Europe. As Portugal struggles to move from underde-velopment, especially in the rural areas away from the coast, it must keep in mind the perils of too rapid modern development, which could damage two of its most precious assets: its scenery and environment. The growth and future prosperity of the economy will depend on the degree to which the government and the private sector will remain stewards of clean air, soil, water, and other finite resources on which the tourism industry depends and on which Portugal's world image as a unique place to visit rests. Currently, Portugal is investing heavily in renewable energy from solar, wind, and wave power in order to account for about 50 percent of its electricity needs by 2010. Portugal opened the world's largest solar power plant and the world's first commercial wave power farm in 2006.
       An American documentary film on Portugal produced in the 1970s described this little country as having "a Past in Search of a Future." In the years after the Revolution of 25 April 1974, it could be said that Portugal is now living in "a Present in Search of a Future." Increasingly, that future lies in Europe as an active and productive member of the EU.

    Historical dictionary of Portugal > Historical Portugal

  • 14 comunidad

    f.
    1 community (grupo).
    comunidad de propietarios o de vecinos residents' association
    la comunidad científica/internacional the scientific/international community
    comunidad Andina Andean Community
    comunidad autónoma (politics) autonomous region, = largest administrative division in Spain, with its own Parliament and a number of devolved powers
    2 communion (cualidad de común) (de ideas, bienes).
    * * *
    1 community
    \
    en comunidad together
    comunidad autónoma autonomous region
    comunidad de propietarios owners' association
    Comunidad Económica Europea European Economic Community
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    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) [gen] community; (=sociedad) society, association; (Rel) community; And commune ( of free Indians)

    de o en comunidad — (Jur) jointly

    comunidad autónoma — Esp autonomous region

    2) (=pago) [de piso] service charge, charge for communal services
    COMUNIDAD AUTÓNOMA In Spain the comunidades autónomas are any of the 19 administrative regions consisting of one or more provinces and having political powers devolved from Madrid, as stipulated by the 1978 Constitution. They have their own democratically elected parliaments, form their own cabinets and legislate and execute policies in certain areas such as housing, infrastructure, health and education, though Madrid still retains jurisdiction for all matters affecting the country as a whole, such as defence, foreign affairs and justice. The Comunidades Autónomas are: Andalucía, Aragón, Asturias, Islas Baleares, Canarias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Cataluña, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, País Vasco, La Rioja, Comunidad Valenciana, Ceuta and Melilla. The term Comunidades Históricas refers to Galicia, Catalonia and the Basque Country, which for reasons of history and language consider themselves to some extent separate from the rest of Spain. They were given a measure of independence by the Second Republic (1931-1936), only to have it revoked by Franco in 1939. With the transition to democracy, these groups were the most vociferous and successful in their demand for home rule, partly because they already had experience of federalism and had established a precedent with autonomous institutions like the Catalan Generalitat.
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    1)
    a) ( sociedad) community
    b) ( grupo delimitado) community
    c) (Relig) community
    d) ( asociación) association
    2) ( coincidencia) community

    comunidad de ideales/objetivos — community of ideals/objectives

    •• Cultural note:
    In 1978 power in Spain was decentralized and the country was divided into comunidades autónomas or autonomías (autonomous regions). The new communities have far greater autonomy from central government than the old regiones and were a response to nationalist aspirations, which had built up under Franco. Some regions have more autonomy than others. The Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia, for example, had political structures, a desire for independence and their own languages which underpinned their claims to distinctive identities. Andalusia gained almost complete autonomy without having had a nationalist tradition. Other regions, such as Madrid, are to some extent artificial, having been created largely to complete the process. The comunidades autónomas are: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, the Basque Country (Euskadi), Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja, Valencia and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
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    Ex. Language of documents and data bases will need to be tailored to each community.
    ----
    * asociación de la comunidad = community group.
    * biblioteca de la comunidad = community library.
    * bibliotecario encargado de los servicios dirigidos a la comunidad = community services librarian.
    * Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas (CEC) = Commission of the European Communities (CEC).
    * comunidad académica = academic community, learning community.
    * comunidad académica de investigadores = academic research community.
    * comunidad agrícola = farming community.
    * comunidad a la que se sirve = service area.
    * comunidad autónoma = autonomous region.
    * comunidad bancaria, la = banking community, the.
    * comunidad bibliotecaria, la = library community, the, librarianship community, the.
    * Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.
    * comunidad científica = knowledge community.
    * comunidad científica, la = scientific community, the, scholarly community, the, research community, the, scientific research community, the.
    * comunidad conectada electrónicamente = online community.
    * comunidad de bibliotecarios y documentalistas, la = library and information community, the.
    * comunidad de educadores, la = education community, the.
    * comunidad de lectores = reader community.
    * comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.
    * comunidad de pescadores = fishing community.
    * comunidad de prácticas comunes = community of practice, community of practice, community of practice.
    * comunidad de proveedores = vendor community.
    * comunidad de proveedores, la = vending community, the.
    * comunidad de usuarios = constituency, user community.
    * comunidad de vecinos = housing association.
    * comunidad dispersa = scattered community.
    * Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE) = European Economic Community (EEC).
    * comunidad editorial, la = publishing community, the.
    * comunidad electrónica = online community.
    * comunidad empresarial, la = business community, the.
    * Comunidad Europea (CE) = EC (European Community).
    * Comunidad Europea de la Energía Atómica (Euratom/EAEC) = European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom/EAEC).
    * Comunidad Europea del Carbón y el Acero (CECA) = European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * comunidad laboral = working community.
    * comunidad lingüística = language community, linguistic community.
    * comunidad local = local community.
    * comunidad marginada = deprived community.
    * comunidad marginal = disadvantaged community.
    * comunidad mundial, la = world community, the.
    * comunidad pluralista = pluralistic community.
    * comunidad religiosa = religious community.
    * comunidad rural = rural community.
    * comunidad urbana = urban community.
    * de la propia comunidad = community-owned.
    * Denominación de Productos para las Estadísticas del Comercio Externo de la = Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE).
    * derecho de la comunidad = community right.
    * dirigido a la comunidad = community-based.
    * implicación de la comunidad = community involvement.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * líder de la comunidad = community leader.
    * miembro de la Comunidad = community member, Community member.
    * no perteneciente a la Comunidad Europea = non-EC.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * patrocinado por la comunidad = community-sponsored.
    * representante de la comunidad = community activist.
    * residente en la comunidad = community-dwelling.
    * toda la comunidad = the community at large.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.
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    1)
    a) ( sociedad) community
    b) ( grupo delimitado) community
    c) (Relig) community
    d) ( asociación) association
    2) ( coincidencia) community

    comunidad de ideales/objetivos — community of ideals/objectives

    •• Cultural note:
    In 1978 power in Spain was decentralized and the country was divided into comunidades autónomas or autonomías (autonomous regions). The new communities have far greater autonomy from central government than the old regiones and were a response to nationalist aspirations, which had built up under Franco. Some regions have more autonomy than others. The Basque Country, Catalonia, and Galicia, for example, had political structures, a desire for independence and their own languages which underpinned their claims to distinctive identities. Andalusia gained almost complete autonomy without having had a nationalist tradition. Other regions, such as Madrid, are to some extent artificial, having been created largely to complete the process. The comunidades autónomas are: Andalusia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, the Basque Country (Euskadi), Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, Madrid, Murcia, Navarre, La Rioja, Valencia and the North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla
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    Ex: Language of documents and data bases will need to be tailored to each community.

    * asociación de la comunidad = community group.
    * biblioteca de la comunidad = community library.
    * bibliotecario encargado de los servicios dirigidos a la comunidad = community services librarian.
    * Comisión de las Comunidades Europeas (CEC) = Commission of the European Communities (CEC).
    * comunidad académica = academic community, learning community.
    * comunidad académica de investigadores = academic research community.
    * comunidad agrícola = farming community.
    * comunidad a la que se sirve = service area.
    * comunidad autónoma = autonomous region.
    * comunidad bancaria, la = banking community, the.
    * comunidad bibliotecaria, la = library community, the, librarianship community, the.
    * Comunidad Británica de Naciones, la = Commonwealth, the.
    * comunidad científica = knowledge community.
    * comunidad científica, la = scientific community, the, scholarly community, the, research community, the, scientific research community, the.
    * comunidad conectada electrónicamente = online community.
    * comunidad de bibliotecarios y documentalistas, la = library and information community, the.
    * comunidad de educadores, la = education community, the.
    * comunidad de lectores = reader community.
    * comunidad de naciones = comity of nations, commonwealth.
    * comunidad de pescadores = fishing community.
    * comunidad de prácticas comunes = community of practice, community of practice, community of practice.
    * comunidad de proveedores = vendor community.
    * comunidad de proveedores, la = vending community, the.
    * comunidad de usuarios = constituency, user community.
    * comunidad de vecinos = housing association.
    * comunidad dispersa = scattered community.
    * Comunidad Económica Europea (CEE) = European Economic Community (EEC).
    * comunidad editorial, la = publishing community, the.
    * comunidad electrónica = online community.
    * comunidad empresarial, la = business community, the.
    * Comunidad Europea (CE) = EC (European Community).
    * Comunidad Europea de la Energía Atómica (Euratom/EAEC) = European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom/EAEC).
    * Comunidad Europea del Carbón y el Acero (CECA) = European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).
    * comunidad internacional, la = international community, the.
    * comunidad laboral = working community.
    * comunidad lingüística = language community, linguistic community.
    * comunidad local = local community.
    * comunidad marginada = deprived community.
    * comunidad marginal = disadvantaged community.
    * comunidad mundial, la = world community, the.
    * comunidad pluralista = pluralistic community.
    * comunidad religiosa = religious community.
    * comunidad rural = rural community.
    * comunidad urbana = urban community.
    * de la propia comunidad = community-owned.
    * Denominación de Productos para las Estadísticas del Comercio Externo de la = Nomenclature of Goods for the External Trade Statistics of the Community and Statistics of Trade between Member States (NIMEXE).
    * derecho de la comunidad = community right.
    * dirigido a la comunidad = community-based.
    * implicación de la comunidad = community involvement.
    * la comunidad en general = the community at large.
    * líder de la comunidad = community leader.
    * miembro de la Comunidad = community member, Community member.
    * no perteneciente a la Comunidad Europea = non-EC.
    * países de la Comunidad Europea = European Communities.
    * países miembro de la Comunidad = Community partner.
    * país miembro de la Comunidad = Community member state.
    * patrocinado por la comunidad = community-sponsored.
    * representante de la comunidad = community activist.
    * residente en la comunidad = community-dwelling.
    * toda la comunidad = the community at large.
    * vida de la comunidad = community life.

    * * *
    comunidad comunidad autónoma (↑ comunidad a1)
    A
    1 (sociedad) community
    para el bien de la comunidad for the good of the community
    2 (grupo delimitado) community
    la comunidad polaca the Polish community
    vivir en comunidad to live with other people
    3 ( Relig) community
    4 (asociación) association
    Compuestos:
    (British) Commonwealth
    ( Hist) European Economic Community
    ( Hist) European Community
    European Coal and Steel Community
    B (coincidencia) community
    no existe comunidad de ideales/objetivos entre ambos grupos there is no community of ideals/objectives between the two groups, the two groups do not share common ideals/objectives
    la sublevación de las Comunidades the Revolt of the Comuneros
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    comunidad sustantivo femenino
    community;

    comunidad sustantivo femenino community
    comunidad autónoma, autonomous region
    comunidad de bienes, co-ownership
    Comunidad Europea, European Community

    ' comunidad' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bien
    - CE
    - CECA
    - CEE
    - consejería
    - depender
    - EURATOM
    - homologación
    - primar
    - pueblo
    - reintegrar
    - autonomía
    English:
    Commonwealth of Independent States
    - community
    - fraternity
    - homeowners assocation
    - integrate
    - scattered
    - service charge
    - European
    - general
    - pillar
    - service
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    1. [grupo] community;
    la comunidad científica/educativa/judía the scientific/education/Jewish community;
    vivir en comunidad to live in a community
    Comunidad Andina Andean Community, = organization for regional cooperation formed by Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela;
    comunidad autónoma autonomous region, = largest administrative division in Spain, with its own Parliament and a number of devolved powers;
    comunidad de base [religiosa] base community, = lay Catholic community independent of church hierarchy;
    Comunidad Británica de Naciones (British) Commonwealth;
    Antes Comunidad Económica Europea European Economic Community;
    la Comunidad Europea, las Comunidades Europeas the European Community;
    la comunidad internacional the international community;
    comunidad linguística speech community;
    comunidad de propietarios residents' association;
    comunidad de vecinos residents' association
    2. [de ideas, bienes] communion
    comunidad de bienes co-ownership [between spouses]
    3. Am [colectividad] commune;
    vive en una comunidad anarquista she lives in an anarchist commune
    COMUNIDAD ANDINA
    The Comunidad Andina de Naciones (CAN – Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela) has its origins in the 1969 “Acuerdo de Cartagena”. Over subsequent decades the various institutions which now form the CAN were set up: the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1979, the Court of Justice in 1983, the Presidential Council in 1990, and the General Secretariat in 1997. The ultimate aim has been to create a Latin American common market. A free trade area was established in 1993, and a common external customs tariff in 1994. While all members have adopted a common foreign policy, more ambitious attempts at integration have been less successful. However, with a combined population of 122 million, and a GDP in 2004 of 300 billion dollars, the community is a significant economic group. In 2004, the leaders of the countries of South America decided to create the “Comunidad Sudamericana de Naciones” (“South American Community of Nations”) or CSN by a gradual convergence between the CAN and Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay), plus Chile, Guyana and Surinam. This will create, in time, a vast free-trade area encompassing all of South America.
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    f community;
    hereditaria heirs pl
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    : community
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    comunidad n community [pl. communities]

    Spanish-English dictionary > comunidad

  • 15 hambre

    f.
    1 hunger (apetito).
    tener hambre to be hungry
    matar el hambre to satisfy one's hunger
    morir o morirse de hambre to be starving, to be dying of hunger (literalmente) to be starving (tener mucha hambre)
    pasar hambre to starve
    hambre canina ravenous hunger
    2 famine (epidemia).
    * * *
    (Takes el in singular)
    1 hunger, starvation, famine
    \
    entretener el hambre figurado to stave off hunger
    hambre y sed de justicia figurado hunger and thirst for justice
    matar de hambre a alguien to starve somebody to death
    matar el hambre figurado to stave off hunger
    morirse de hambre to die of starvation, be starving
    pasar hambre to be hungry, go hungry
    ser más listo,-a que el hambre figurado to be a cunning devil
    ser un,-a muerto,-a de hambre peyorativo to be a good-for-nothing
    tener hambre to be hungry
    salario de hambre starvation wages plural
    * * *
    noun f.
    •
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=necesidad de comer) hunger

    • estar con hambre — to be hungry

    vengo con mucha hambre — I'm terribly hungry, I'm starving *

    • dar hambre a algn — to make sb hungry

    • entrar hambre, me está entrando hambre — I'm starting to feel hungry, I'm getting hungry

    • matar de hambre a algn — to starve sb to death

    • morir de hambre — to die of hunger, starve to death

    • padecer o pasar hambre — to go hungry

    • quedarse con hambre, se han quedado con hambre — they are still hungry

    • tener hambre — to be hungry

    tener un hambre canina o de lobo — to be ravenous, be ravenously hungry

    muerto, salario
    2) (=escasez general) famine
    3) (=deseo)

    tener hambre de justicia/triunfos — to be hungry for justice/victory

    * * *
    femenino‡
    1)
    a) ( sensación) hunger

    me muero de hambre — (fam) I'm starving (colloq)

    matar el hambre: comió unas galletas para matar el hambre he ate some cookies to keep him going; ser más listo que el hambre (fam) to be razor sharp (colloq); tengo/tiene un hambre canina I/he could eat a horse (colloq); a buen hambre no hay pan duro — beggars can't be choosers

    2) (liter) (ansia, deseo)
    * * *
    = starvation, hunger.
    Ex. This approach let to the financial starvation of public libraries.
    Ex. This article highlights bibliometrically the degree of fit between the national research effort and the social aim of agriculture, (to prevent hunger and poverty).
    ----
    * con hambre de poder = power-hungry.
    * con un poco de hambre = peckish.
    * despertar el hambre = work up + an appetite.
    * engañar el hambre = keep + the wolves from the door.
    * entrar hambre después del esfuerzo = work up + an appetite.
    * estar muerto de hambre = be starving to death.
    * huelga de hambre = hunger strike.
    * juntarse el hambre con las ganas de comer = made for each other, be two of a kind, be a right pair.
    * más hambre que el perro de un ciego = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * más hambre que un maestro de escuela = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * matar de hambre = starve to + death.
    * morir de hambre = starve to + death, die of + hunger, starve of + hunger.
    * morirse de hambre = starve.
    * muerto de hambre = poverty-stricken, starving.
    * padecer hambre = suffer from + hunger.
    * pan para hoy y hambre para mañana = rob Peter to pay Paul.
    * pasar hambre = suffer from + hunger, go + hungry, starve.
    * retortijón de hambre = hunger pang, pang of hunger.
    * sentir hambre = be hungry, feel + hungry.
    * tener hambre = be hungry, feel + hungry.
    * tener hambre después del esfuerzo = work up + an appetite.
    * * *
    femenino‡
    1)
    a) ( sensación) hunger

    me muero de hambre — (fam) I'm starving (colloq)

    matar el hambre: comió unas galletas para matar el hambre he ate some cookies to keep him going; ser más listo que el hambre (fam) to be razor sharp (colloq); tengo/tiene un hambre canina I/he could eat a horse (colloq); a buen hambre no hay pan duro — beggars can't be choosers

    2) (liter) (ansia, deseo)
    * * *
    = starvation, hunger.

    Ex: This approach let to the financial starvation of public libraries.

    Ex: This article highlights bibliometrically the degree of fit between the national research effort and the social aim of agriculture, (to prevent hunger and poverty).
    * con hambre de poder = power-hungry.
    * con un poco de hambre = peckish.
    * despertar el hambre = work up + an appetite.
    * engañar el hambre = keep + the wolves from the door.
    * entrar hambre después del esfuerzo = work up + an appetite.
    * estar muerto de hambre = be starving to death.
    * huelga de hambre = hunger strike.
    * juntarse el hambre con las ganas de comer = made for each other, be two of a kind, be a right pair.
    * más hambre que el perro de un ciego = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * más hambre que un maestro de escuela = as hungry as a wolf, as hungry as a bear, as hungry as a hunter.
    * matar de hambre = starve to + death.
    * morir de hambre = starve to + death, die of + hunger, starve of + hunger.
    * morirse de hambre = starve.
    * muerto de hambre = poverty-stricken, starving.
    * padecer hambre = suffer from + hunger.
    * pan para hoy y hambre para mañana = rob Peter to pay Paul.
    * pasar hambre = suffer from + hunger, go + hungry, starve.
    * retortijón de hambre = hunger pang, pang of hunger.
    * sentir hambre = be hungry, feel + hungry.
    * tener hambre = be hungry, feel + hungry.
    * tener hambre después del esfuerzo = work up + an appetite.

    * * *
    f‡
    A
    1 (sensación) hunger
    tengo hambre I'm hungry
    tengo hambre de algo dulce ( fam); I feel like something sweet
    pasamos un hambre horrible ( fam); we were starving ( colloq)
    el ejercicio da hambre exercise makes you hungry
    me muero de hambre or tengo un hambre que me muero I'm starving ( colloq)
    allí la gente se muere de hambre people are starving to death there
    matar el hambre: comió unas galletas para matar el hambre he ate some cookies to keep him going o to stop him feeling hungry o ( colloq) to keep the wolf from the door
    se ha juntado el hambre con las ganas de comer or se juntaron el hambre y las ganas de comer ( hum); one is as bad as the other, they're two of a kind, they're a right pair ( colloq)
    ser más listo que el hambre ( fam); to be razor sharp ( colloq)
    tengo/tiene un hambre canina I'm/he's ravenous, I/he could eat a horse ( colloq)
    a buen hambre no hay pan duro or ( RPl) cuando hay hambre no hay pan duro or ( Col) a buen hambre no hay mal pan beggars can't be choosers
    muerto2 (↑ muerto (2))
    2
    (como problema): el hambre hunger
    una campaña contra el hambre a campaign against hunger
    pagan sueldos de hambre they pay starvation wages
    B ( liter) (ansia, deseo) hambre DE algo:
    tienen hambre de justicia they hunger for o after justice
    su insaciable hambre de riqueza/poder his insatiable desire o hunger for wealth/power
    su hambre de cariño her hunger o longing for affection
    * * *

     

    hambre feminine noun taking masculine article in the singular


    pasar hambre to go hungry;
    morirse de hambre to starve to death;
    me muero de hambre (fam) I'm starving (colloq)


    hambre sustantivo femenino
    1 (apetito) hunger: tengo mucha hambre, I'm very hungry
    2 (inanición) starvation: miles de personas mueren de hambre, thousands of people are starving
    (mal, desgracia) famine: el hambre asola el país, famine is ravaging the country
    3 fig (deseo intenso) hunger: tiene hambre de victoria, she's hungering for victory o she's thirsty for victory
    ♦ Locuciones: ser más listo que el hambre, to be as smart as they come
    se juntaron el hambre y las ganas de comer, they are one and alike
    ' hambre' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    abalanzarse
    - aguzar
    - canina
    - canino
    - consigo
    - de
    - desfallecer
    - el
    - engañar
    - feroz
    - gana
    - huelga
    - impasible
    - matar
    - morir
    - morirse
    - muerta
    - muerto
    - no
    - paliar
    - quitar
    - saciar
    - secuela
    - solitaria
    - tener
    - aplacar
    - bárbaro
    - bestial
    - calmar
    - consumido
    - entrar
    - horroroso
    - insatisfecho
    - mucho
    - padecer
    - pobre
    - sentir
    - un
    English:
    be
    - bet
    - expect
    - famine
    - famished
    - how
    - hunger
    - hunger strike
    - hungry
    - pang
    - peckish
    - ravenous
    - starvation
    - starve
    - starving
    - strike
    - feel
    - go
    - half-
    - horse
    - stricken
    - subsistence
    * * *
    1. [apetito] hunger;
    [inanición] starvation;
    tener hambre to be hungry;
    me ha entrado hambre I'm starting to feel hungry, I'm getting hungry;
    prepara una buena cena, que venimos con hambre make sure there's plenty for dinner because we'll be hungry when we arrive;
    me voy a tomar un yogur para entretener o [m5] engañar el hambre I'm going to have a yoghurt to keep me going (until my next meal);
    matar el hambre to satisfy one's hunger;
    Fig
    nos mataban de hambre they had us on a starvation diet;
    morir o [m5] morirse de hambre [literalmente] to be starving, to be dying of hunger;
    [tener mucha hambre] to be starving;
    pasar hambre to starve;
    durante la posguerra, la población pasó mucha hambre in the years after the war, people often went hungry;
    me he quedado con hambre I'm still hungry;
    se juntan el hambre con las ganas de comer it's one thing on top of another;
    ser más listo que el hambre to be nobody's fool;
    a buen hambre no hay pan duro, RP [m5] cuando hay hambre no hay pan duro [de comida] hunger is the best sauce;
    [de mujeres, placeres] beggars can't be choosers hambre canina ravenous hunger
    2. [problema] famine;
    el problema del hambre en la región the problem of famine in the area;
    una campaña contra el hambre a campaign against hunger
    3. [deseo]
    hambre de hunger o thirst for;
    se destaca por su hambre de justicia his hunger for justice sets him apart;
    su hambre de poder es insaciable his hunger o thirst for power is insatiable
    * * *
    f hunger;
    tener hambre be hungry;
    pasar hambre be starving;
    morirse de hambre fig be starving;
    ser un muerto de hambre be on the bread line; en relaciones have no luck with the opposite sex
    * * *
    hambre nf
    1) : hunger
    2) : starvation
    3)
    tener hambre : to be hungry
    4)
    dar hambre : to make hungry
    * * *
    También existen los términos starvation que se refiere al sufrimiento o a la muerte provocados por el hambre y famine que es la falta extrema de alimentos que afecta a un gran número de personas
    se murió de hambre she starved to death / she died of starvation
    ¿tienes hambre? are you hungry?

    Spanish-English dictionary > hambre

  • 16 sed

    f.
    1 thirst.
    las palomitas dan sed popcorn makes you thirsty
    tener sed to be thirsty
    sed de conocimientos thirst for knowledge
    tener sed de venganza to be thirsty for revenge
    2 desire, craving, avidity, avidness.
    imperat.
    2nd person plural (vosotros/vosotras) Imperative of Spanish verb: ser.
    * * *
    1 thirst
    \
    apagar la sed / matar la sed / quitar la sed to quench one's thirst
    dar sed to make thirsty
    tener sed to be thirsty
    tener sed de figurado to be thirsty for
    * * *
    noun f.
    * * *
    SF
    1) (=ganas de beber) thirst

    apagar o saciar la sed — to quench one's thirst

    sed inextinguible o insaciable — unquenchable thirst

    2) (Agr) drought, dryness
    3) (=ansia) thirst (de for)
    craving (de for)

    tener sed de — to thirst o be thirsty for, crave

    * * *
    femenino thirst

    su sed de venganza/riqueza — her thirst for vengeance/riches

    * * *
    ----
    * apagar la sed = slake + Posesivo + thirst.
    * aplacar la sed = slake + Posesivo + thirst.
    * con sed = thirsty [thirstier -comp., thirstiest -sup.].
    * con sed de poder = power-hungry.
    * despertar la sed = work up + a thirst.
    * entrar sed después del esfuerzo = work up + a thirst.
    * estar frito de sed = be parched, spit + feathers, be parched with thirst.
    * estar muerto de sed = spit + feathers, be parched, be parched with thirst.
    * pasar sed = go + thirsty.
    * saciar la sed = slake + Posesivo + thirst.
    * sed de lectura = book hunger.
    * sed de matar = bloodlust.
    * sed de venganza = thirst for revenge, thirst for revenge.
    * sentir sed = be thirsty.
    * tener sed = be thirsty.
    * tener sed después del esfuerzo = work up + a thirst.
    * * *
    femenino thirst

    su sed de venganza/riqueza — her thirst for vengeance/riches

    * * *
    * apagar la sed = slake + Posesivo + thirst.
    * aplacar la sed = slake + Posesivo + thirst.
    * con sed = thirsty [thirstier -comp., thirstiest -sup.].
    * con sed de poder = power-hungry.
    * despertar la sed = work up + a thirst.
    * entrar sed después del esfuerzo = work up + a thirst.
    * estar frito de sed = be parched, spit + feathers, be parched with thirst.
    * estar muerto de sed = spit + feathers, be parched, be parched with thirst.
    * pasar sed = go + thirsty.
    * saciar la sed = slake + Posesivo + thirst.
    * sed de lectura = book hunger.
    * sed de matar = bloodlust.
    * sed de venganza = thirst for revenge, thirst for revenge.
    * sentir sed = be thirsty.
    * tener sed = be thirsty.
    * tener sed después del esfuerzo = work up + a thirst.
    * * *
    thirst
    el agua le quitó la sed the water quenched his thirst
    tengo mucha sed I'm very thirsty
    me da mucha sed it makes me (feel) very thirsty
    su sed de venganza/riqueza her thirst for vengeance/riches
    * * *

     

    Del verbo ser: ( conjugate ser)

    sed es:

    2ª persona plural (vosotros) imperativo

    Multiple Entries:
    sed    
    ser
    sed sustantivo femenino
    thirst;

    tengo sed I'm thirsty;
    me da sed it makes me (feel) thirsty;
    su sed de venganza/riqueza her thirst for vengeance/riches
    ser ( conjugate ser) cópula
    1 ( seguido de adjetivos) to be
    ◊ ser expresses identity or nature as opposed to condition or state, which is normally conveyed by estar. The examples given below should be contrasted with those to be found in estar 1 cópula 1 es bajo/muy callado he's short/very quiet;

    es sorda de nacimiento she was born deaf;
    es inglés/católico he's English/(a) Catholic;
    era cierto it was true;
    sé bueno, estate quieto be a good boy and keep still;
    que seas muy feliz I hope you'll be very happy;

    (+ me/te/le etc)

    ver tb imposible, difícil etc
    2 ( hablando de estado civil) to be;

    es viuda she's a widow;
    ver tb estar 1 cópula 2
    3 (seguido de nombre, pronombre) to be;

    ábreme, soy yo open the door, it's me
    4 (con predicado introducido por `de'):

    soy de Córdoba I'm from Cordoba;
    es de los vecinos it belongs to the neighbors, it's the neighbors';
    no soy de aquí I'm not from around here
    5 (hipótesis, futuro):

    ¿será cierto? can it be true?
    verbo intransitivo
    1

    b) (liter) ( en cuentos):

    ◊ érase una vez … once upon a time there was …

    2
    a) (tener lugar, ocurrir):


    ¿dónde fue el accidente? where did the accident happen?

    ◊ ¿qué habrá sido de él? I wonder what happened to o what became of him;

    ¿qué es de Marisa? (fam) what's Marisa up to (these days)? (colloq);
    ¿qué va a ser de nosotros? what will become of us?
    3 ( sumar):
    ◊ ¿cuánto es (todo)? how much is that (altogether)?;

    son 3.000 pesos that'll be o that's 3,000 pesos;
    somos diez en total there are ten of us altogether
    4 (indicando finalidad, adecuación) sed para algo to be for sth;

    ( en locs)
    ◊ a no ser que (+ subj) unless;

    ¿cómo es eso? why is that?, how come? (colloq);
    como/cuando/donde sea: tengo que conseguir ese trabajo como sea I have to get that job no matter what;
    hazlo como sea, pero hazlo do it any way o however you want but get it done;
    el lunes o cuando sea next Monday or whenever;
    puedo dormir en el sillón o donde sea I can sleep in the armchair or wherever you like o anywhere you like;
    de ser así (frml) should this be so o the case (frml);
    ¡eso es! that's it!, that's right!;
    es que …: ¿es que no lo saben? do you mean to say they don't know?;
    es que no sé nadar the thing is I can't swim;
    lo que sea: cómete una manzana, o lo que sea have an apple or something;
    estoy dispuesta a hacer lo que sea I'm prepared to do whatever it takes;
    o sea: en febrero, o sea hace un mes in February, that is to say a month ago;
    o sea que no te interesa in other words, you're not interested;
    o sea que nunca lo descubriste so you never found out;
    (ya) sea …, (ya) sea … either …, or …;
    sea como sea at all costs;
    sea cuando sea whenever it is;
    sea donde sea no matter where;
    sea quien sea whoever it is;
    si no fuera/hubiera sido por … if it wasn't o weren't/hadn't been for …
    ( en el tiempo) to be;
    ◊ ¿qué fecha es hoy? what's the date today?, what's today's date;

    serían las cuatro cuando llegó it must have been (about) four (o'clock) when she arrived;
    ver tb v impers
    sed v impers to be;

    sed v aux ( en la voz pasiva) to be;
    fue construido en 1900 it was built in 1900
    ■ sustantivo masculino
    1
    a) ( ente) being;

    ◊ sed humano/vivo human/living being

    b) (individuo, persona):


    2 ( naturaleza):

    sed sustantivo femenino
    1 thirst: tengo mucha sed, I'm thirsty
    calmar la sed, to quench one's thirst
    2 fig (de justicia, libertad) hunger, thirst
    tener sed de justicia, to be hungry o thirsty for justice
    3 fig (deseo intenso, ambición desmedida) la sed de poder le puede llevar al fracaso, an insatiable thirst for power can lead to failure
    ser
    I sustantivo masculino
    1 being: es un ser despreciable, he's despicable
    ser humano, human being
    ser vivo, living being
    2 (esencia) essence: eso forma parte de su ser, that is part of him
    II verbo intransitivo
    1 (cualidad) to be: eres muy modesto, you are very modest
    2 (fecha) to be: hoy es lunes, today is Monday
    ya es la una, it's one o'clock
    3 (cantidad) eran unos cincuenta, there were about fifty people
    (al pagar) ¿cuánto es?, how much is it?
    son doscientas, it is two hundred pesetas
    Mat dos y tres son cinco, two and three make five
    4 (causa) aquella mujer fue su ruina, that woman was his ruin
    5 (oficio) to be a(n): Elvira es enfermera, Elvira is a nurse
    6 (pertenencia) esto es mío, that's mine
    es de Pedro, it is Pedro's
    7 (afiliación) to belong: es del partido, he's a member of the party
    es un chico del curso superior, he is a boy from the higher year
    8 (origen) es de Málaga, she is from Málaga
    ¿de dónde es esta fruta? where does this fruit come from?
    9 (composición, material) to be made of: este jersey no es de lana, this sweater is not (made of) wool
    10 ser de, (afinidad, comparación) lo que hizo fue de tontos, what she did was a foolish thing
    11 (existir) Madrid ya no es lo que era, Madrid isn't what it used to be
    12 (suceder) ¿qué fue de ella?, what became of her?
    13 (tener lugar) to be: esta tarde es el entierro, the funeral is this evening 14 ser para, (finalidad) to be for: es para pelar patatas, it's for peeling potatoes
    (adecuación, aptitud) no es una película para niños, the film is not suitable for children
    esta vida no es para ti, this kind of life is not for you
    15 (efecto) era para llorar, it was painful
    es (como) para darle una bofetada, it makes me want to slap his face
    no es para tomárselo a broma, it is no joke
    16 (auxiliar en pasiva) to be: fuimos rescatados por la patrulla de la Cruz Roja, we were rescued by the Red Cross patrol
    17 ser de (+ infinitivo) era de esperar que se marchase, it was to be expected that she would leave
    ♦ Locuciones: a no ser que, unless
    como sea, anyhow
    de no ser por..., had it not been for
    es más, furthermore
    es que..., it's just that...
    lo que sea, whatever
    o sea, that is (to say)
    sea como sea, in any case o be that as it may
    ser de lo que no hay, to be the limit
    ' sed' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    apagar
    - engañar
    - matar
    - pasar
    - quitar
    - saciar
    - tener
    - aplacar
    - calmar
    - dar
    - insaciable
    - mitigar
    - sentir
    English:
    aforementioned
    - aforesaid
    - dry
    - parched
    - quench
    - said
    - sedative
    - sedentary
    - sediment
    - thirst
    - thirsty
    - unbiased
    - unbiassed
    - be
    - feel
    - make
    * * *
    ♦ ver ser
    ♦ nf
    thirst;
    las palomitas dan sed popcorn makes you thirsty;
    tener sed to be thirsty;
    saciar la sed to quench one's thirst;
    los familiares de la víctima tienen sed de venganza the victim's family is thirsty for revenge
    * * *
    thirst (de for);
    tener sed be thirsty;
    sed de libertad thirst for freedom;
    sed de poder thirst for power
    * * *
    sed nf
    1) : thirst
    tener sed: to be thirsty
    2)
    tener sed de : to hunger for, to thirst for
    * * *
    sed n thirst

    Spanish-English dictionary > sed

  • 17 begær

    sg - begǽret, pl - begǽr
    жела́ние с, жа́жда ж
    * * *
    * * *
    (et) desire,
    ( stærkere) appetite,
    F craving ( efter for, fx wealth, success),
    (især neds) lust ( fx for power),
    ( seksuelt) desire ( fx arouse his desire; satisfy one's desire),
    (neds) lust.

    Danish-English dictionary > begær

  • 18 стремление стремлени·е

    aspiration (for), desire (for), ambition, striving

    стремление стать кем-л. — ambition to be smth.

    Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > стремление стремлени·е

  • 19 cupiditas

    cŭpĭdĭtas, ātis ( gen. plur. rarely -tatium, Cic. Sest. 66, 138; Sen. Ep. 5, 7), f. [cupidus], a desire, wish, longing, in a good and (more freq.) in a bad sense.
    I.
    In a good sense, a longing, desire.
    (α).
    With gen.:

    insatiabilis quaedam veri videndi,

    Cic. Tusc. 1, 19, 44:

    cognoscendi,

    id. ib.:

    imitandi,

    id. Brut. 92, 317:

    mirabilis pugnandi,

    Nep. Milt. 5, 1 al.:

    justi et magni triumphi,

    Cic. Pis. 25, 59:

    gloriae,

    id. ib.:

    mira studiorum,

    Tac. Or. 2:

    cibi,

    appetite, Cels. 2, 3 al. —
    (β).
    With ad:

    tanta cupiditas ad reditum,

    Cic. Phil. 1, 4, 9:

    tanta ad venandum,

    Curt. 9, 1, 33.—
    (γ).
    Absol.:

    nimis flagrare cupiditate,

    Cic. de Or. 1, 30, 134:

    nimis confidere propter cupiditatem,

    on account of warm desire, id. Off. 1, 21, 73:

    de voluntate tuā, ut simul simus, vel studio potius et cupiditate non dubito,

    eager longing, id. Att. 12, 26, 1; cf.: tanta erat magnificentia apud opulentiores, cupiditas apud humiliores, devotion, enthusiasm, Auct. B. G. 8, 51 fin. —
    II.
    In a bad sense, a passionate desire, lust, passion, cupidity.
    A.
    In gen.
    (α).
    With gen.:

    pecuniae,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 22; Quint. 7, 2, 30 al.:

    praedae,

    Caes. B. G. 6, 34:

    praeceps et lubrica dominandi,

    Cic. Phil. 5, 18, 50:

    laedendi,

    Quint. 5, 7, 30:

    diutius exigendi mercedulas,

    id. 12, 11, 14 et saep. —
    (β).
    Absol.:

    vel libido vel cupiditas,

    Cic. Tusc. 4, 19, 44:

    vita maxime disjuncta a cupiditate,

    id. Rosc. Am. 14, 39:

    caeca ac temeraria dominatrix animi cupiditas,

    id. Inv. 1, 2, 2:

    mala,

    Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 34:

    vita hominum sine cupiditate agitabatur,

    Sall. C. 2, 1:

    indomitas cupiditates atque effrenatas habere,

    Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 24, § 62; cf.:

    domitas habere libidines, coërcere omnes cupiditates,

    id. de Or. 1, 43, 194 et saep.:

    P. Naso omni carens cupiditate (i. e. non appetens provinciam),

    id. Phil. 3, 10, 25:

    temeritatem cupiditatemque militum reprehendit,

    immoderate love of fighting, Caes. B. G. 7, 52.—
    b.
    Carnal desire, lust, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 21;

    of animals,

    Col. 6, 27, 4.—
    2.
    Transf., the object of desire (cf. epithumia):

    alicujus ex inpurissimis faucibus inhonestissimam cupiditatem eripere,

    Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6, § 19; cf. id. Scaur. 14, 45.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    A passionate desire for money or other possessions; avarice, cupidity, covetousness:

    nisi ipsos caecos redderet cupiditas et avaritia et audacia,

    Cic. Rosc. Am. 35, 101;

    so with avaritia,

    Quint. 12, 1, 6; Suet. Dom. 9:

    et contemptus pecuniae et cupiditas,

    Quint. 7, 2, 30;

    opp. abstinentia,

    Suet. Dom. 9; 10:

    cupiditas causa sceleris fuit,

    Quint. 5, 12, 6 Spald.; 3, 5, 10; 5, 10, 34; Suet. Calig. 44 al.—
    b.
    The passion of love:

    cupiditatis ardor,

    Curt. 8, 4, 27:

    insana,

    Val. Max. 7, 3, 10:

    aliquam non cupiditate tantā diligere, ut, etc.,

    Suet. Calig. 24.—
    c.
    Greediness of gain in trade, usury, overreaching, fraud, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 9.—
    d.
    The lust of power, ambition (post-Aug.):

    non te propria cupiditas, sed aliena utilitas principem fecit,

    Plin. Pan. 7.—
    2.
    An undue partiality, spirit of party:

    (testes) aut sine ullo studio dicebant, aut cum dissimulatione aliquā cupiditatis,

    Cic. Fl. 10, 21; 26, 64; id. Planc. 17, 43; Liv. 24, 28, 8.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > cupiditas

  • 20 ambition

    طُمُوح \ ambition: a strong desire for success, power, etc: His ambition is to sail around the world. \ مَطْمَع \ ambition: a strong desire for success, power, etc: His ambition is to sail around the world. \ See Also طموح (طُموح)‏

    Arabic-English glossary > ambition

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