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Definition: Macau |
MacauNoun1. A Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea; reverts to China in 1999. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Geography | Capital of Macau. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonym: MacauSynonym: Macao (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Macau |
| Non-English Usage: "Macau" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (Macau), German (Macau (mo)), Portuguese (macaroni). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Macau de Hoje (1971) Via Macau (1966) Cidade do Santo Nome de Deus Macau (1952) Porto de Macau (1935) Macau (1928) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Macau | In April the Holy See appointed a coadjutor Bishop for the Macau diocese. (references) |
Macau | Macau Radio broadcasts in both Portuguese and Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin). (references) | |
Macau | The Macau SAR Government generally respects these rights in practice, although there was at least one exception. (references) | |
Economic History | Hong Kong | Macau has no public debt. (references) |
Macau | The U.S. Government has no offices in Macau. (references) | |
Macau | In 1943, Japan created a virtual protectorate over Macau. (references) | |
Human Rights | Macau | Since the 1999 closure of its Macau office, Amnesty International's Hong Kong office handles prison visit cases. (references) |
Macau | Local human rights groups, such as the Macau Association for the Rights of Laborers, and the New Democratic Macau Association, continued to operate. (references) | |
Macau | International human rights agreements that formerly were applicable to Macau were approved by the Sino-Portuguese Joint Liaison Group and continue to apply to the SAR. (references) | |
Political Economy | Hong Kong | A Chinese People's Liberation Army garrison in Macau has no responsibility for internal security. (references) |
Hong Kong | Under the principle of "one country, two systems" specified in the 1987 Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration, The Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) enjoys a high degree of autonomy except in foreign affairs and defense. (references) | |
Political Rights | Macau | The Government is led by a Chief Executive, chosen by a 200-member Selection Committee, which was chosen by the Preparatory Committee (60 Macau and 40 mainland representatives appointed by the NPC of the People's Republic of China). (references) |
Trade | Hong Kong | Hong Kong and Macau are not recipients of official development assistance. (references) |
Hong Kong | U.S. Trade and Development Agency programs are available for Hong Kong and Macau. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Macau | In 1999 2 Vietnamese women were prosecuted in Vietnam for trafficking 15 Vietnamese women to Macau for the purpose of prostitution. (references) |
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| "Macau" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Macau" is used about 26 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 26 | 68,323 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Macau": Macau-based. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
macau | 464 |
macau hotel | 84 |
macau night life | 27 |
china macau | 27 |
air macau | 22 |
macau sex | 20 |
macau map | 20 |
government macau | 15 |
macau tourism | 13 |
travel to macau | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Macau"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | MO (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Moral Re-armament), Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Det Særlige Administrative Område Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
Dutch | Macau (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
Esperanto | Makao. (various references) | |
Finnish | MO (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Kiinan kansantasavallan erityishallintoalue Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
French | MO (Macao-ISO code, Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, managed object), Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Région administrative spéciale de Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
German | MO (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Macau (Macau (mo), Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Sonderverwaltungsregion Macau (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
Greek | MO (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, mobile originated), Μακάο· Μακάου (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Μακάο, Ειδική "ιοικητική εριοχή Μακάο της Λαϊκής "ημοκρατίας της Κίνας (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
Italian | MO (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Middle east), Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, macaw). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 阿媽港 (Macao). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | あま"う (Macao). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | acaumay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | MO (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Macau (macaroni, Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Região Administrativa Especial de Macau (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
Russian | макау. (various references) | |
Spanish | MO (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China), Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
Swedish | MO (fine sand, Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, managed object), Macao (Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-m-u" | |
-2 letters: ama, amu, cam, cum, mac. | |
-3 letters: aa, am, ma, mu, um. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-m-u" | |
+1 letter: macula. | |
+2 letters: arcanum, calamus, macaque, maculae, macular, maculas, macumba, sambuca. | |
+3 letters: arcanums, caladium, cardamum, comatula, glaucoma, guaiacum, macaques, macrural, macruran, maculate, macumbas, naumachy, sambucas. | |
+4 letters: acuminate, amaurotic, ambulacra, ambulance, ambuscade, automatic, cacuminal, caladiums, calcaneum, caldarium, calvarium, campanula, cardamums, catamount, comatulae, docudrama, glaucomas, guacamole, guaiacums, macrurans, maculated, maculates, naumachia, sacrarium, simulacra, traumatic. | |
+5 letters: accumulate, acetabulum, ambulacral, ambulacrum, ambulances, ambuscaded, ambuscader, ambuscades, animalcula, animalcule, automatics, calamitous, calumniate, calvariums, camouflage, campanulas, catamounts, columbaria, docudramas, emasculate, factualism, guacamoles, immaculacy, immaculate, maculating, maculation, majuscular, metacarpus, microfauna, naumachiae, naumachias, naumachies, oceanarium, pancratium, paramecium, scaramouch, ultramafic, unacademic, undramatic, unicameral. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 61 63 61 75 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- .- -.-. .- ..- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01100001 01100011 01100001 01110101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M a c a u |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 0061 0063 0061 0075 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4767696787 |
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