Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city and administrative region of southeast China comprising the Macau Peninsula and two offshore islands in the South China Sea west of Hong Kong. A Portuguese trading post was established here in 1557 and became a free port in 1849. Macau was a Portuguese overseas province until 1999, when it reverted to Chinese sovereignty. It has a large tourism industry and many casinos.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun Same as
Macao , the territory.
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- proper noun A city just west of
Hong Kong , a highlyautonomous special region ofChina , previously underPortuguese control.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a former Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverted to China in 1999
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