Curaçao
Americannoun
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the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, off the NW coast of Venezuela. 173 sq. mi. (448 sq. km). Willemstad.
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(lowercase) Also curaçao a cordial or liqueur flavored with the peel of the sour orange.
noun
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an island in the Caribbean, the largest in the Netherlands Antilles. Capital: Willemstad. Pop: 146 836 (2013 est). Area: 444 sq km (171 sq miles)
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an orange-flavoured liqueur originally made there
Example Sentences
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The tanker, which is under U.S. sanctions for previously transporting Tehran’s oil, changed its route again toward South America on Wednesday, giving Curaçao as its destination.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025
In Curaçao, Stern said, he spoke once to Dutch authorities on the island but intentionally didn’t brief them to keep them from being thought complicit and drawing the ire of neighboring Venezuela.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Machado left Curaçao on the jet on Wednesday at 6:42 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
María Corina Machado left Venezuela on a fishing boat for Curaçao on Tuesday morning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
He now had barely six weeks to prepare for the Candidates tournament to be held on the island of Curaçao, thirty-eight miles off the coast of Venezuela.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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