Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- See Macao.
Wiktionary
- n. A city just west of Hong Kong, a highly autonomous special region of China, previously under Portuguese control.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as Macao, the territory.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a former Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverted to China in 1999
Etymologies
- From Portuguese Macau, corruption of Southern Sinitic ama (name of a patron goddess of sailors) + ngao "bay, port." (Wiktionary)
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