Definition of Porto Rico

1. Noun. A self-governing commonwealth associated with the United States occupying the island of Puerto Rico.

Exact synonyms: Commonwealth Of Puerto Rico, Pr, Puerto Rico
Generic synonyms: Commonwealth
Group relationships: Caribbean, Greater Antilles
Terms within: Puerto Rico, San Juan, Culebra, Vieques

2. Noun. The smallest and easternmost of the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean.
Exact synonyms: Puerto Rico
Group relationships: Commonwealth Of Puerto Rico, Pr, Puerto Rico
Generic synonyms: Island

Lexicographical Neighbors of Porto Rico

Portable Management Interface
Porte
Portia
Portingal
Portingals
Portishead
Portland
Portland cement
Portland stone
Portman
Portmore
Porto
Porto-Novo
Porto Alegre
Porto Novo
Porto Rico (current term)
Porto Velho
Portsmouth
Portugal
Portugall
Portugalls
Portugese
Portuguese
Portuguese-Canadian
Portuguese Congo
Portuguese East Africa
Portuguese Guinea
Portuguese Republic
Portuguese Sign Language
Portuguese Water Dog

Literary usage of Porto Rico

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"That all Spanish scientific, literary, and artistic works, not subversive of public order in Porto Rico, shall be admitted free of duty into Porto Rico for ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Porto Rico, University of, an institution for the promotion of higher education, created iby an act of the insular legislature which was approved 12 March ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"Porto Rico, for respondent. Petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Porto Rico denied. No. 727. The PEOPLE OF Porto Rico, petitioner, v. ..."

4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"There are many important questions to be solved in Porto Rico, ... When Porto Rico became a dependency of the United States, her citizens were citizens of ..."

5. Report by Indians Rights Association (1908)
"The " jibaro " class in Porto Rico is predominantly white, almost all the farm population in the interior of Porto Rico being of Spanish and Indian blood. ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1901)
"Porto Rico produces some oranges as fine as any grown in Jamaica, ... The conditions are now all favorable in Porto Rico for the growth of citrous fruits in ..."

7. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1919)
"THE INSULAR CASES AND THE STATUS OF Porto Rico. Downes v. Bidwell.*0 This is really the most important judgment in all the Insular Cases so far as a ..."

8. Latin America and the United States by Graham Henry Stuart (1922)
"CHAPTER IX Porto Rico—A STUDY IN AMERICAN TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT IN the foreign relations of the United States previous to the war with Spain, Porto Rico ..."

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