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Soviet coin: Var
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rouble
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of ruble English)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the basic unit of money in Russia [syn: ruble ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rouble \Rou"ble\, n. A coin. See Ruble .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN zone ▪ The rouble zone is in its death throes. ▪ Kirgizstan's decision last month to pull out of the rouble zone has infuriated the other four. ▪ Two further developments are likely to put the rouble zone out of its ...
Usage examples of rouble.
He was astonished to see me, and I was more astonished still to find that he had turned taverner, for he gave an excellent dinner every day to all who cared to pay a rouble, exclusive of wine.
He begged me to come and dine with him every day, paid me the roubles for the month due, and assured me that he had honoured my bill drawn at Mitau.
Now, you see his price is a grosh, now a fifteen copeck silver piece, now a hundred roubles, and sometimes he is above any price.
The adjacent land will be worth countless millions of roubles to a Government which has not had to pay a single copeck for it.
Consequently Karl Mayer have to receive 139 rouble, 79 copecks, beside his wage.
He collects groshes and copecks, and donates hundreds of thousands of roubles.
My answer had been that I could only give her to a man she liked, and that I meant to make her a present of the hundred roubles I had given for her.
He had been a chief mover in the conspiracy, and the empress gave him a present of a hundred thousand roubles and an order to leave Russia immediately.
One evening a Russian, on his way from Poland, where he had been executing some commission for the Russian Court, called on the prince, played, and lost twenty thousand roubles on his word of honour.
As I was praising the noble calmness with which a certain prince had lost a thousand roubles to him, he laughed and said that the fine gamester I had mentioned played upon credit but never paid.
Zinowieff told me what had passed, saying that he had asked the father if he would let him have the daughter as a maid-servant, and the father had replied that it should be so with all his heart, but that he must have a hundred roubles for her, as she was still a virgin.
The castrato Luini was a lieutenant-colonel, and the painter Toretti only a captain, because he had only eight hundred roubles a year, while the coachman had three thousand.
The conversation over, Zinowieff went out, and I followed him after giving the master of the house a rouble.
I never heard what became of him after he left Russia, where he obliged me with the loan of five hundred roubles, which I have not yet been able to return to him.
Ivan Fyodorovich was discharged with the rank of sublieutenant, hired a Jew for forty roubles to take him from Mogilev to Gadyach, and sat himself in the kibitka just at the time when the trees became clothed in young, still sparse leaves, all the earth greened brightly with fresh green, and all the fields smelled of spring.