BELEM

Belem, Para, Feliz Lusitania, Santa Maria de Belem, St. Mary of Bethlehem

(noun) port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin

Source: WordNet® 3.1



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Word of the Day

27 May 2025

DIRECTIONALITY

(noun) the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; “the directionality of written English is from left to right”


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Coffee Trivia

The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.

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