Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The basic unit of currency in Macau.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Portuguese silver coin formerly struck for currency in Brazil; a dollar, or piece of eight. Also
patacoon . - noun A Portuguese coin of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, equal to 320 reis.
- noun A Portuguese coin of Mozambique, equal to 6 crusados.
- noun A silver coin of Macao and Timor, equivalent to 100 avos or 41.63 cents.
- noun A copper coin of Portugal, equal to 2 cuartos.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The Spanish dollar; -- called also
patacoon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The monetary unit of
Macau , equal to 100avos . - noun A monetary unit used during the 16th century and 17th century in
Malta in the form of a large copper coin. - noun A monetary unit of account used in Portuguese Timor intermittently between 1894 and 1958.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the basic unit of money in Macao
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The loan is in Hong Kong dollars, the main betting currency of Macau (its own currency is called the pataca).
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The loan is in Hong Kong dollars, the main betting currency of Macau (its own currency is called the pataca).
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This comes after its board approved a contribution of 158 million Macau pataca ($20 million) to the share capital of Air Macau, says the Star Alliance carrier.
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About two hours before daybreak you will hear the red monkey moaning as though in deep distress; the houtou, a solitary bird, and only found in the thickest recesses of the forest, distinctly articulates "houtou, houtou," in a low and plaintive tone an hour before sunrise; the maam whistles about the same hour; the hannaquoi, pataca and maroudi announce his near approach to the eastern horizon, and the parrots and paroquets confirm his arrival there.
john commented on the word pataca
We blew a shitload of these during our evening plenary sessions in Macau during that, you know, strategic planning retreat.
March 7, 2009