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centavos

centavos is the plural of centavo.

Meaning of centavo

Noun

centavo (plural centavos)

  1. Currency unit (hundredth of a peso) in Mexico.
  2. A similar subdenomination of various other currencies (in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cape Verde, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mozambique, Nicaragua, and the Philippines).
  3. (historical) The former subdenomination of some other currencies (in Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Puerto Rico, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Venezuela).

Questions about centavos

What is centavos the plural of?
Centavos is the plural of centavo.

Words near centavos in the dictionary

  1. centauroside
  2. centaurs
  3. Centaurus
  4. centaury
  5. centavo
  6. centavos
  7. centbucridine
  8. centchroman
  9. CENTCOM
  10. centelloside
  11. centellosides

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Adapted from Wiktionary: centavos (page history and authors); centavo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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