cerrado

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

cerrado (countable and uncountable, plural cerrados)

1. (biogeography, uncountable) A type of tropical savanna biome occupying much of central Brazil and parts of Paraguay.
2. (biogeography, countable) A region with this biome.

• corrade

• 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
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 iDicionário Aulete.
• “cerrado” in Dicionário inFormal.
• “cerrado” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “cerrado” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2023.
• “cerrado” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
• “cerrado” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Past participle of cerrar.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈrado/ [θeˈra.ð̞o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈrado/ [seˈra.ð̞o]
• 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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014