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chaco

chaco is the alternative form of shako.

Meaning of shako

Noun (1)

shako (plural shakos or shakoes)

  1. A stiff, cylindrical military dress hat with a metal plate in front, a short visor, and a plume.
  2. (UK) A bearskin or busby.

Noun (2)

shako (uncountable)

  1. The squilla or mantis shrimp.

Proper noun capitalized: Chaco

Chaco

  1. A province in northern Argentina.
  2. Swamped area in southern South America

Forms of chaco

pluralchacos
pluralchacoes

Origin of chaco

Borrowed from Spanish Chaco.

Words formed from chaco

Phrases with chaco

Questions about chaco

What does chaco mean?
Chaco means a province in northern Argentina.
What is chaco the alternative form of?
Chaco is the alternative form of shako.
What part of speech is chaco?
Chaco is a proper noun.

Words near chaco in the dictionary

  1. chacmoles
  2. chacmols
  3. chacmool
  4. chacmools
  5. chacne
  6. chaco
  7. Chaco nothura
  8. Chaco nothuras
  9. chacoes
  10. Chacombe
  11. Chacon

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chaco (page history and authors); Chaco (page history and authors); shako (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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