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# recife

noun

«recife» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

97 uses in 1 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as a noun in 97 of 97. By the class of the article: city 1. Most often with: «have», «city», «area», «brazilian», «know».

### Examples

- Recife (/rɪˈsiːfi,\_-fə/ riss-EE-fee-,\_--fə; ʁeˈsifi) is the state capital of Pernambuco, Brazil, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of South America. — [Recife](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recife), sentence 1 («wiki:Recife:1»)
- Recife was founded in 1537, serving as the main harbor of the Captaincy of Pernambuco—known for its large-scale production of sugar cane. — [Recife](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recife), sentence 4 («wiki:Recife:4»)
- Situated at the confluence of the Beberibe and Capibaribe rivers, before they drain into the South Atlantic Ocean, Recife is a major seaport along the Brazilian Atlantic coast. — [Recife](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recife), sentence 6 («wiki:Recife:6»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Recife»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recife), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.