BALBOA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balboa mean? 

• BALBOA (noun)
  The noun BALBOA has 2 senses:

1. the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos

2. Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)

  Familiarity information: BALBOA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALBOA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("balboa" is a kind of...):

Panamanian monetary unit (monetary unit in Panama)

Meronyms (parts of "balboa"):

centesimo (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: Panama and Italy and Uruguay and Chile)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Balboa; Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Instance hypernyms:

navigator (in earlier times, a person who explored by ship)