CURACAO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Curacao mean? 

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

1. a popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles

2. flavored with sour orange peel

  Familiarity information: CURACAO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CURACAO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A popular island resort in the Netherlands Antilles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

island (a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water)

Holonyms ("Curacao" is a part of...):

Netherlands Antilles (a group of islands in the Lesser Antilles just to the north of Venezuela that are administered by The Netherlands)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flavored with sour orange peel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

curacao; curacoa

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

orange liqueur (liqueur flavored with orange)

 Context examples 

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles curacao.

(Curacao Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)

Three islands comprising the Caribbean portion of the Netherlands, north of Venezuela and east of Curacao.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus)

An island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela and west of Curacao.

(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus)

Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)