cerrado

• Cerrado

From Portuguese cerrado (literally “shut, thick”), from cerrar (“to shut”).

cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)

1. (biogeography, uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome found in much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
2. (biogeography, countable, often capitalized) A region with this biome.
   • 1993 July 15, Richard Critchfield, “For Green Revolutionaries, A Latin American Triumph”, in International Herald Tribune‎^[1]:

     The biggest breakthrough on the horizon is coming on Latin America's vast cerrado, the seemingly endless grassy plains centered in Brazil. The cerrado covers more than 200 million hectares (500 million acres)—more than all the cultivated land that feeds India's more than 800 million people.

• cerrado on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• corrade

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

cerrar +‎ -ado

• Hyphenation: cer‧ra‧do
• Homophone: serrado

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. closed, shut
2. thick, dense

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

1. cerrado (tropical savanna biome)
2. a region with this biome
3. a biome similar to it, such as scrub

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

• “cerrado”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “cerrado”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “cerrado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cerrado”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “cerrado”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “cerrado”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• cerrado on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^pt

Past participle of cerrar.

• IPA^(key): /θeˈrado/ [θeˈra.ð̞o] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /seˈrado/ [seˈra.ð̞o] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -ado
• Syllabification: ce‧rra‧do
• Homophone: (Latin America) serrado

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. shut, closed

   El baúl está cerrado.

   The trunk is shut.

   Gracias por mantener la boca cerrada.

   Thanks for keeping your mouth shut.

2. closed off (personality trait)

cerrado m (plural cerrados)

1. synonym of cercado

cerrado (feminine cerrada, masculine plural cerrados, feminine plural cerradas)

1. past participle of cerrar

• “cerrado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024