noun
- plural of colon, the monetary unit of Costa Rica and El Salvador
Usage: currency
Examples
- The hotel room costs 50,000 colones per night.
- She exchanged her dollars for colones at the airport.
- The taxi fare was 3,000 colones to downtown San José.
- Local vendors prefer payment in colones rather than US dollars.
- The restaurant bill came to 15,000 colones for two people.
- He had difficulty counting the large denominations of colones.