Usually means: Traditional Portuguese melancholic music genre.
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  1. fado: Merriam-Webster
  2. fado: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fado: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fado: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fado: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fado, fado: Wordnik
  7. fado: Wiktionary
  8. fado: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. fado: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. fado: Dictionary.com
  11. FADO, Fado (Carminho album), Fado (music), Fado: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. fado: Rhymezone
  13. fado: FreeDictionary.org
  14. fado: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. fado: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Dance (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FADO: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FADO: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (fado)

noun:  A Portuguese folk song, usually featuring a single vocalist, Portuguese guitar and sometimes classical guitar. Lyrical themes are often melancholic in nature; the structure of the song is of greater importance.

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