(especially with reference to songs or poetry) a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament.
（被认为葡萄牙、巴西人性情上特有的）渴望；忧郁；怀旧
her songs are based on love poems and evoke a melancholy known to the Portuguese as saudade
count nounyearnings, saudades, those sonorous fruits grown for overripe hearts
Example sentencesExamples
A predominant theme in both literature and music is saudade, a sense of longing or homesickness, usually the result of emigration and the ensuing separation of families.
Anyone familiar with that timeless Portuguese emotion known as saudade will detect a similar sense of longing and nostalgia in the sevdah tradition of the Sarajevo-born singer Amira.
When in one country, he could experience saudade, or a longing nostalgia, for the other.
When you combine this melancholic sound, which the Portuguese call saudade, with African music, the result is extremely touching and sad, but beautiful at the same time.
These plaintive songs reflect the fatalistic Portuguese spirit of melancholy and nostalgia known as saudade.
Origin
Portuguese.
Definition of saudade in US English:
saudade
nounsouˈdädə
A feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament.
（被认为葡萄牙、巴西人性情上特有的）渴望；忧郁；怀旧
her songs are based on love poems and evoke a melancholy known to the Portuguese as saudade
count nounyearnings, saudades, those sonorous fruits grown for overripe hearts
Example sentencesExamples
When you combine this melancholic sound, which the Portuguese call saudade, with African music, the result is extremely touching and sad, but beautiful at the same time.
These plaintive songs reflect the fatalistic Portuguese spirit of melancholy and nostalgia known as saudade.
A predominant theme in both literature and music is saudade, a sense of longing or homesickness, usually the result of emigration and the ensuing separation of families.
Anyone familiar with that timeless Portuguese emotion known as saudade will detect a similar sense of longing and nostalgia in the sevdah tradition of the Sarajevo-born singer Amira.
When in one country, he could experience saudade, or a longing nostalgia, for the other.