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cruzado

cruzado noun: the monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.

Noun

cruzado (plural cruzados or cruzadoes)

  1. The monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
  2. An old monetary unit of Portugal in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  3. An old monetary unit of Castile in the 14th century.

Proper noun capitalized: Cruzado

Cruzado (plural Cruzados)

  1. A surname.

Forms of cruzado

Noun
pluralcruzados
pluralcruzadoes
Proper noun
pluralCruzados

Origin of cruzado

From Portuguese cruzado. Doublet of cruciate.

Questions about cruzado

What does cruzado mean?
Cruzado means the monetary unit of Brazil from 1986 to 1990.
What part of speech is cruzado?
Cruzado can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cruzado?
The plural of cruzado is cruzados.

Words near cruzado in the dictionary

  1. Cruyff turn
  2. Cruyff turns
  3. Cruz
  4. Cruz Bay
  5. Cruzada
  6. cruzado
  7. cruzadoes
  8. cruzados
  9. Cruzan
  10. Cruzans
  11. Cruzcruz

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cruzado (page history and authors); Cruzado (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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