Definition

Noun: * Portuguese monetary unit: The standard unit of currency used in Portugal. This term refers to the official monetary unit that was in circulation in Portugal before the country adopted the euro.

Usage Notes

• This is a compound noun phrase that functions as a single lexical unit.
• It is a historical term, as Portugal adopted the euro (€) as its official currency in 1999 (for electronic transactions) and introduced euro banknotes and coins in 2002.
• The term is primarily used in historical, economic, or numismatic (coin-collecting) contexts when referring to Portugal's former currency system.

Examples

• Noun:
  • The escudo was the Portuguese monetary unit for nearly a century before the euro.
  • Collectors often seek out old Portuguese monetary units like the real or the escudo.

Advanced Usage

• The term can be used in a generic sense to refer to any unit from Portugal's monetary history (e.g., the , the ).
• It is often found in academic texts discussing comparative economics or the history of European currencies.

Variants and Related Words

• Escudo (n): The specific name of the primary Portuguese monetary unit from 1911 until 2002.
  • One euro was equivalent to 200.482 Portuguese escudos.
• Euro (n): The current monetary unit used in Portugal and many other European Union countries.
• Monetary unit (n): The standard unit of value of a currency (e.g., dollar, yen, pound).

Synonyms

• Portuguese currency
• Unit of Portuguese currency

Different Meanings

• This term has only one specific meaning: the monetary unit of Portugal. It does not have other unrelated definitions.

Noun

1. monetary unit in Portugal