From Spanish morada.

morada (plural moradas)

1. a religious meeting hall associated with the Penitente Brotherhood of New Mexico

• Amador, Madora, armado, dorama

morada

1. feminine singular of moráu

From Old Galician-Portuguese morada (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from morar (“to dwell”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔˈɾaða̝/

morada f (plural moradas)

1. habitation, occupancy
2. dwelling, residence
3. stay, sojourn

• IPA^(key): /moˈɾaða̝/

morada f sg

1. feminine singular of morado

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “morada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “morada”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “morada”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “morada”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

From morar (“to live somewhere”) +‎ -ada.

morada f (plural moradas)

1. dwelling; residence

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:habitação

2. (by extension) address

   Synonym: endereço

   Escreva o seu nome e morada, por favor. ― Write your name and address, please.

• moradia

morada f sg

1. feminine singular of morado

• “morada”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “morada”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /moˈɾada/ [moˈɾa.ð̞a]

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• Rhymes: -ada
• Syllabification: mo‧ra‧da

From morar +‎ -ada.

morada f (plural moradas)

1. abode, dwelling

   Synonym: domicilio

   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 38:

     El Cuero es un monstruo que tiene su morada en el Bío-Bío.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. resting place

morada f sg

1. feminine singular of morado

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

morada

1. feminine singular of morado

• “morada”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

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