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Look up: drachma

  1. drachma
    An ancient Greek silver coin weighing about 3 grams. The predecessor to the Roman denarius.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/10142

  2. drachma
    [n] - the basic unit of money in Greece
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  3. Drachma
    Drach'ma noun ; plural English Drachmas , Latin Drachmæ . [ Latin , from Greek .... See Dram .] 1. A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods....
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/D/117

  4. drachma
    Greek drachma noun formerly the basic unit of money in Greece
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  5. Drachma
    • (n.) A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents. • (n.) Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram. • (n.) A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at differ...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  6. drachma
    silver coin of ancient Greece, dating from about the mid-6th century , and the former monetary unit of modern Greece. The drachma was one of the ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/d/72

  7. drachma
    a traditional unit of weight in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. The drachma was a Greek coin, and the unit was originally the weight of the coin. In ancient times this was about 4.3 grams, but more recent versions are about 3.2 grams, 49.3 grains, or 0.113 ounce avoirdupois. There is also a tr...
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.

  8. Drachma
    The drachma was the currency of Greece until replaced by the Euro in 2002.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  9. Drachma
    Greek monetary unit, divided into 6 obols. The standard coin in use was the silver tetradrachma worth four drachmas.
    Found on http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/glos



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