🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Guernica

Pronunciation / Transliteration: Guernica

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Guernica/ɡɛərˈniːkə/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A pintura 'Guernica' de Picasso é um símbolo do horror da guerra."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A town in Spain that was the site of a devastating bombing during the Spanish Civil War, often used as a symbol of the tragedies of war.

    "The painting 'Guernica' by Picasso captures the anguish of the town's destruction."
  2. 2

    A famous painting by Pablo Picasso that depicts the suffering caused by war, inspired by the bombing of the town.

    "In art history, 'Guernica' is regarded as a powerful anti-war statement."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Gernika, the historical town in the Basque Country of Spain that was bombed by Nazi German and Fascist Italian warplanes in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. The name became globally famous due to Pablo Picasso's monumental anti-war mural created to depict the suffering and devastation of the event.

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