Definitions for pesetas

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pesetas pe·se·ta

Spelling: [puh-sey-tuh; Spanish pe- Pesetas is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 164 anagrams from letters in pesetas (aeepsst).

Definitions for pesetas

noun

1. a bronze coin and monetary unit of Spain and Andorra until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 centimos. Abbreviation: P., Pta.
2. a former silver coin of Spain and Spanish America, equal to two reals; pistareen.
3. a former monetary unit of Equatorial Guinea: replaced by the ekuele in 1973.

Origin of pesetas

1805-15; Spanish, diminutive of pesa a weight. See peso

Examples for pesetas

He had to have his peseta for the night's session at coffee and dominoes.

It was so funny, he cared not a peseta if he laughed himself to death!

One would think one could hurl a peseta across it, until one tried.

Perhaps mon Americain won't think so much of his peseta bills.

For not a peseta will ever be repaid, inasmuch as there was no security.

One peseta is for the bride-to-be, the other for her mother.

We had been told to pay the man a peseta; but he expostulated at the wage, demanding three.

I left my waistcoat upon the bed, and in the pocket there was a peseta and a half.

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

The piece is no longer struck, but its value is one-fourth of a peseta.