Definitions for escudo

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escudo es·cu·do

Spelling: [e-skoo-doh; Portuguese es-koo-doo; Escudo is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in escudo (cdeosu).

Definitions for escudo

noun

1. a coin and monetary unit of Cape Verde, equal to 100 centavos.
2. a former coin and monetary unit of Angola, Guinea-Bissau, and Mozambique.
3. a former paper money and monetary unit of Chile, equal to 100 condors or 1000 pesos, replaced by the new peso in 1975.
4. any of various former gold coins of Spain, Spanish America, and Portugal.
5. a former silver coin of Spain, discontinued in 1868.

Origin of escudo

1815-25; Spanish: shield Latin scūtum

Examples for escudo

The real is a quarter of a peseta, but the escudo of ten reales has been suppressed.

The nearest relatives received an 'escudo de oro,' or two-dollar piece.

The largest weight is the tàhel, which is the weight of ten reals of silver—or, as we say, of one escudo.

Before every storm the boat of phantoms appeared, and when he sailed for escudo and Porto Bello it followed him.

The real of eight received a new name, escudo de plata, and was to issue at an equivalence of 10 reals of the new silver.