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).
Macau’s Big Gamble 2007
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The loan is in Hong Kong dollars, the main betting currency of Macau (its own currency is called the pataca).
Macau’s Big Gamble 2007
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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.
HEADLINES 2009
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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.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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