"Macao" meaning in All languages combined

See Macao on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Macao
  1. Alternative spelling of Macau Wikipedia link: Defense Mapping Agency Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Macau Categories (place): Macau
    Sense id: en-Macao-en-name-2xPwIXBS Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries

Proper name [French]

IPA: /ma.ka.o/ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-Pamputt-Macao.wav
Head templates: {{fr-proper noun|m}} Macao m
  1. Macau (A Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China just west of Hong Kong) Wikipedia link: fr:Macao Tags: masculine Categories (place): Macau Derived forms: macanais, Macanais
    Sense id: en-Macao-fr-name-SCjmmjq7 Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries

Proper name [German]

IPA: /maˈkao̯/ Audio: De-Macao.ogg
Head templates: {{head|de|proper noun|g=n}} Macao n
  1. Macau (A Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China just west of Hong Kong) Wikipedia link: de:Macao Tags: neuter Categories (place): Macau
    Sense id: en-Macao-de-name-SCjmmjq7 Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries

Proper name [Polish]

IPA: /maˈka.ɔ/
Rhymes: -aɔ Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Macao, from Chinese 阿媽港 /阿妈港, from 阿媽/阿妈 + 港. Etymology templates: {{ubor|pl|pt|Macao}} Unadapted borrowing from Portuguese Macao, {{der|pl|zh|阿媽港}} Chinese 阿媽港 /阿妈港, {{zh-l|阿媽|tr=-}} 阿媽/阿妈, {{zh-l|港|tr=-}} 港 Head templates: {{pl-proper noun|n|indecl=yes}} Macao n (indeclinable)
  1. Alternative form of Makau Tags: alt-of, alternative, indeclinable, neuter Alternative form of: Makau Categories (place): Cities in China, Macau, Places in China, Special administrative regions of China

Proper name [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{head|pt|proper noun|||g=m|g2=|g3=|head=}} Macao m, {{pt-proper noun|m}} Macao m
  1. Obsolete spelling of Macau. Tags: alt-of, masculine, obsolete Alternative form of: Macau
    Sense id: en-Macao-pt-name-YWj3ACzZ Categories (other): Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Portuguese entries with incorrect language header

Proper name [Spanish]

IPA: /maˈkao/, [maˈka.o] Forms: Macau [alternative], Macan [alternative], Macán [alternative], Machan [alternative], Machao [alternative], Machaun [alternative], Amacao [alternative], Amachan [alternative]
Rhymes: -ao Etymology: From Portuguese Macau. See there for more info. Etymology templates: {{bor|es|pt|Macau}} Portuguese Macau Head templates: {{head|es|proper nouns|g=?|g2=|g3=|head=}} Macao ?, {{es-proper noun|?}} Macao ?
  1. Macau (a city and special administrative region of China) Categories (place): Cities in China, Macau, Places in China, Special administrative regions of China Derived forms: macaense
    Sense id: en-Macao-es-name-DAiKprAH Categories (other): Pages with 7 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Proper name [Tagalog]

IPA: /maˈkaw/ [Standard-Tagalog], [mɐˈxaʊ̯] [Standard-Tagalog] Forms: Macáo [canonical], ᜋᜃᜏ᜔ [Baybayin]
Rhymes: -aw Head templates: {{tl-proper noun|Macáo|b=makaw}} Macáo (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜃᜏ᜔)
  1. Alternative spelling of Makaw Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: Makaw

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The Portuguese Colony of Macao is situated on a rocky peninsula in the Heung Shan (Fragrant Hills) District in the Kwong Chau Prefecture of the Kwong Tung, or Canton Province, in the south eastern part of the Empire of China.",
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          "ref": "1975 March 9, “Mme. Chiang warns against detente”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 9, Taipei, page 1:",
          "text": "The First Lady charged that the Maoists are making use of the Portuguese, through their small enclave of Macao, to carry out trade in drugs that are aimed in enslaving and demoralizing the people of the free world. She said the narcotics trade also is providing Chinese Communist leaders with a major source of revenue for use in carrying out their subversive, revolutionary tactics in other countries.",
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          "text": "Prostrate from opium wars and divided into spheres of European influence, China was unable to protect her citizens from Occidentals who seduced them to immigrate. Poor, illiterate Chinese peasants—especially at Macao after the British Passenger Act (1855) drove the \"coolie trade\" from Hong Kong—were easily duped by foreigners who promised them better lives, often in the gold fields of California, once indentures of four to five years had been satisfied.",
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          "ref": "1684, Edm. Halley, “A Theory of the Tides at the Bar of Tunking”, in Philosophical Transactions, volume XIV, Oxford, →OCLC, page 687:",
          "text": "It would be however a very acceptable thing if ſome curious Navigators would inform us, what tides or Currents are found at Macao, Quemoy, and other places on the Coast of China and on Formoſa ; it being moſt probable that this flood cometh out of the North Eaſt, alongſt the Coaſt of China, for that the Northerly Moonsoon is found to occaſion the higheſt ſpring-tides.",
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          "ref": "1784, James Cook, James King, Cook's Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, volume IV, London: John Stockdale, pages 211–213:",
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          "text": "The Portuguese Colony of Macao is situated on a rocky peninsula in the Heung Shan (Fragrant Hills) District in the Kwong Chau Prefecture of the Kwong Tung, or Canton Province, in the south eastern part of the Empire of China.",
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          "ref": "1975 March 9, “Mme. Chiang warns against detente”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 9, Taipei, page 1:",
          "text": "The First Lady charged that the Maoists are making use of the Portuguese, through their small enclave of Macao, to carry out trade in drugs that are aimed in enslaving and demoralizing the people of the free world. She said the narcotics trade also is providing Chinese Communist leaders with a major source of revenue for use in carrying out their subversive, revolutionary tactics in other countries.",
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          "text": "Prostrate from opium wars and divided into spheres of European influence, China was unable to protect her citizens from Occidentals who seduced them to immigrate. Poor, illiterate Chinese peasants—especially at Macao after the British Passenger Act (1855) drove the \"coolie trade\" from Hong Kong—were easily duped by foreigners who promised them better lives, often in the gold fields of California, once indentures of four to five years had been satisfied.",
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}

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