bancada
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ban‧ca‧da
Noun edit
bancada f (plural bancadas)
- seats
- grandstand, stands, terraces (the seating area at a stadium or arena)
- Synonym: arquibancada
- grandstand (the audience at a public event)
- (politics) legislators (in a Parliament, a group of legislators from the same party, or the corresponding seats)
- workbench (sturdy table)
Participle edit
bancada f sg
Further reading edit
- “bancada” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “bancada” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “bancada” in Dicionário inFormal.
- “bancada” in Dicionário Online de Português.
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bancada f (plural bancadas)
- (politics) legislators (in a Parliament, a group of legislators from the same party, or the corresponding seats)
- 2009 May 26, “Obama nombra hispana para Corte Suprema”, in BBC Mundo[1]:
- De ser confirmada por el Senado, Sotomayor será la primera hispana en ocupar una bancada en el máximo tribunal y reemplazará a David Souter, quien hace dos semanas anunció su retiro.
- In being confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor will be the first Hispanic woman to occupy a bench in the highest court and will replace David Souter, who two weeks ago announced his retirement.
Related terms edit
Participle edit
bancada f sg
Further reading edit
- “bancada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
- “bancada” in Lexico, Oxford University Press.