MACAO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Macao mean? 

• MACAO (noun)
  The noun MACAO has 1 sense:

1. a former Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverted to China in 1999

  Familiarity information: MACAO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACAO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverted to China in 1999

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Macao; Macau

Instance hypernyms:

possession (a territory that is controlled by a ruling state)

 Context examples 

A special administrative region of China, bordering the South China Sea, east of Macao.

(Hong Kong, NCI Thesaurus)

Every man to his own taste, but Brookes’s window by day and a snug corner of the macao table at Watier’s by night, give me all I want for mind and body.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)