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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of eastern Brazil near the Atlantic Ocean south-southwest of Recife. It is a commercial center in a cotton- and sugar-producing region.

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  • proper noun State capital of Sergipe, Brazil.

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Examples

  • We went on to Salvador (Bahia) for a day, then arrived in Aracaju where we would live.

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Last month I posted about living in Aracaju as a girl.

    UPDATE TO "BRASIL AS A GIRL" Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Aracaju is the capital of Sergipe, the smallest Brazilian state.

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • I defied my mother (a first for me) by refusing to continue with the correspondence course she ordered to teach me and my little brother Bill -- there were no English-language grade schools in Aracaju.

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • © Maggie Jochild,23 June 2004, 12: 15 p.m. (Aracaju, Brasil)

    HAROLD DERWIN BARNETT, 22 May 1925 - 16 October 2006 Maggie Jochild 2007

  • © Maggie Jochild, 1 December 2004, 1: 45 p.m. (Praia de Atalaia, on the South Atlantic just outside Aracaju.)

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Plus I looked up the hospital again and figured out that the listing on that street was an orthodontist in Sao Jose, which appears to be a neighborhood of Aracaju. so a serach for Sao Jose showed R. Const.

    BRASIL AS A GIRL Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Critical mangroves near Aracaju and southern Sergipe (Area of Environmental Protection of Litoral Sul) are under high risk because of urban expansion, timber extraction, and pollution caused by agriculture and industry.

    Rio São Francisco mangroves 2007

  • That 43 percent belonged to a Brazilian named Laura Flor, who research swiftly showed was home in Aracaju during the critical period, among other things having a baby.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • Timothy Kennelly, the 18 year-old After Death bassist, remains missing presumed dead after going to the aid of Leon Villalba, 21 year-old rhythm guitarist, whose body washed up on a beach in Aracaju on Thursday.

    Metal Hammer 2010

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