English

Alternative forms

• Curacao

Proper noun

Curaçao

1. An island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the west coast of Venezuela, a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Derived terms

• Curaçaoan

Translations

External links

• Curaçao on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

• curacao
• curacoa

Noun

curaçao ‎(countable and uncountable, plural curaçaos)

1. A liqueur, made from eau-de-vie, sugar and, as flavor, dried peel of sweet and sour oranges.

Translations

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

French

Etymology

From Dutch, named after the island Curaçao, one of the Dutch Antilles, itself named after the Portuguese word curação ‎(“medical cure”), from Latin curatio ‎(“cure”), from curare ‎(“to cure”), from cura ‎(“care, cure”).

Noun

curaçao m ‎(plural curaçaos)

1. The orange peel-flavored liqueur curaçao