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peso — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • heft noun The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
  • peso noun The unit of currency used in several Latin American countries and the Philippines.
  • scales noun A device with two pans used to measure and compare weight.
  • shot noun The firing of a gun, or the result of firing it.
  • weight noun How heavy someone or something is.

Senses

peso is used for these senses in English:

  • heft (dated, except, UK, dialectal, and, US) The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
  • peso (historical) A former unit of currency in Spain and Spain's colonies, worth 8 reales; the Spanish dollar.
  • scales A device for measuring weight.
  • shot (countable, athletics) The heavy iron ball used for the shot put.
  • weight The downwards force an object experiences due to gravity.

heft — full definition

  1. noun The feel of the weight of something; heaviness.
  2. noun The force exerted by an object due to gravitation; weight.
  3. noun Graveness, seriousness; gravity.
  4. noun Importance, influence; weight.

peso — full definition

  1. noun The unit of currency used in several Latin American countries and the Philippines.
  2. noun Historically, the Spanish dollar, a coin once used throughout Spain's colonies.

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