How do you use Doubloon in a sentence? See 5 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like coin, plus the exact meaning.
Doubloon meaning
- A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies.
- Clipping of doubloonie.
- Alternative form of dabloon (“fictional currency”).
Synonyms of Doubloon
Using Doubloon
- The main meaning on this page is: A former Spanish gold coin, also used in its American colonies. | Clipping of doubloonie. | Alternative form of dabloon (“fictional currency”).
- Useful related words include: coin.
- In the example corpus, doubloon often appears in combinations such as: the doubloon.
Context around Doubloon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Doubloon
- In this selection, "doubloon" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, gold and spanish stand out and add context to how "doubloon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a spanish doubloon and claims the doubloon for himself. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "doubloon" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with doubloon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Lightning strikes the mast, setting the doubloon and Ahab's harpoon aglow. (12 words)
He claims the doubloon for himself, and orders all boats to lower except for Starbuck's. (16 words)
Tucked inside under the felt liner was a gold coin, it turned out to be a Spanish Doubloon. (18 words)
Players must now continue jumping across the boats, until they reach the point from which the vessels are appearing, and then look left to find the fifth Gold Doubloon. (29 words)
This theme pervades the novel, perhaps never so emphatically as in "The Doubloon" (Ch. 99), where each crewmember perceives the coin in a way shaped by his own personality. (29 words)
Tucked inside under the felt liner was a gold coin, it turned out to be a Spanish Doubloon. (18 words)
Example sentences (5)
Players must now continue jumping across the boats, until they reach the point from which the vessels are appearing, and then look left to find the fifth Gold Doubloon.
Tucked inside under the felt liner was a gold coin, it turned out to be a Spanish Doubloon.
He claims the doubloon for himself, and orders all boats to lower except for Starbuck's.
Lightning strikes the mast, setting the doubloon and Ahab's harpoon aglow.
This theme pervades the novel, perhaps never so emphatically as in "The Doubloon" (Ch. 99), where each crewmember perceives the coin in a way shaped by his own personality.
Common combinations with doubloon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: