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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

solução definitiva

Pronunciation / Transliteration: soˈluˈsɐ̃w defiˈnitivɐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Final solution/ˈfaɪ.nəl səˈluː.ʃən/
nounCEFR C2 (Proficient)Top #15400 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Precisamos encontrar uma solução definitiva para este impasse."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A definitive, ultimate, and irreversible resolution to a complex or persistent problem.

    "Negotiators sought a final solution to end the decades-long territorial dispute."
  2. 2

    Specifically capitalized as 'The Final Solution', the Nazi plan for the extermination of the Jewish people during World War II.

    "Historians study the administrative machinery that orchestrated the Final Solution."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English words 'final' (from Latin finalis, ultimately from finis meaning 'end') and 'solution' (from Latin solutio, meaning 'loosening' or 'explaining'). While originally used in general contexts to denote a definitive answer or resolution to a complex problem, the term became historically infamous as a translation of the German 'Endlösung', the Nazi regime's deliberate code name for the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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