Definitions for pesos

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pesos pe·so

Spelling: [pey-soh; Spanish pe-saw]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ soʊ; Spanish ˈpɛ sɔ/

Pesos is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in pesos (eopss).

Definitions for pesos

noun

1. a coin and monetary unit of Chile, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, and the Philippines, equal to 100 centavos.
2. a coin and monetary unit of Uruguay, equal to 100 centesimos.
3. a former monetary unit of Argentina, equal to 100 centavos: replaced by the austral in 1985.
4. a former silver coin of Spain and Spanish America, equal to eight reals; dollar; piece of eight; piaster.

Origin of pesos

Spanish: literally, weight Latin pēnsum something weighed, noun use of neuter of pēnsus, past participle of pendere to weigh

Examples for pesos

This after some haggling, he agreed to do, all for one peso (Mexican silver dollar).

He was sorry for it afterwards and gave her a peso to ease her.

I could have won every peso if I had put up only a little handful of the nuggets.

A peso, or duro, is the same as our dollar: it is a silver coin.

There was not a peso at the disposal of the Provincial Governor for local improvements.

To-day Constitutionalist sold for 22 and 28 cents American on the peso.

Nation has interesting monetary system based on peso with peso being worth 100 centavos and centavo being worth nothing.

The chief denomination of money is the dollar or peso, value (in gold) 4s.

I guess I know where to get another, and the lesson is worth a peso.

With this Wilkinson had to be content, for the Viceroy refused to pay him a peso.