Crossword clues for drachma
drachma
- Old Greek coin
- Euro predecessor
- Pre-euro money
- Greek coin
- A euro predecessor
- Old coin of Greece
- Greek currency unit
- Pre-euro Greek currency
- Pre-euro Greek coin
- Old money of Greece
- Old Greek currency
- Former coin of Greece
- Euro's Greek predecessor
- Euro predecessor, in Greece
- Currency replaced with a euro with an owl on its reverse
- Bygone money
- A unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains
- The basic unit of money in Greece
- Greek bread once provided by church, intervening in crisis?
- Money companion invested in theatre
- Children absorbed by play money, once
- Chapter in play is an old piece
- Exciting event, investing Switzerland's old money
- Excitement about Switzerland's old silver coin
- Former Greek monetary unit
- Former Greek currency
- Ready overseas once to include companion in play
- Tragedy perhaps engulfing Switzerland's former capital
- Tense situation involving companion’s money at one point
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drachma \Drach"ma\, n.; pl. E. Drachmas, L. Drachm[ae]. [L., fr. Gr. ?. See Dram.]
A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents (U. S. currency, ca. 1913).
A gold and silver coin of modern Greece worth 19.3 cents.
Among the ancient Greeks, a weight of about 66.5 grains; among the modern Greeks, a weight equal to a gram. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from Greek drakhme, an Attic coin and weight, probably originally "a handful" (see dram). Earlier as dragme (late 14c.), from Old French dragme, from Medieval Latin dragma.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The currency of Greece from ancient times until 2001, with the symbol ₯, since replaced by the euro. 2 A coin worth one drachma. 3 An Ancient Greek weight of about 66.5 grains. 4 A later Greek weight equal to a gram.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "drachma".
I have elected to use when speaking of Hellenic currency rather than Roman, because the drachma most closely approximated the denarius in weight at around 4 grams.
For a moment Sinon toyed with the idea of blackmail, then he laughed, shrugged, tossed an expiatory drachma into the briskly foaming wake as an offering to Poseidon.
There would have been gold dinars, Byzantine coins, gold florins, drachmas, marks, along with unminted silver and gold.
Three hundred pounds of didrachmas, deca drachmas and tetra drachmas worth millions.
Drachmas, Yen, Eurodollars or other national currencies whenever his work took him on the road.
No drachma but had its other side: Andromeda in my opinion had near henpecked me out of cockhood.
The salary of a philosopher was ten thousand drachmae, between three and four hundred pounds a year.
The best sense seems to be, that the Praetorian guards received twelve hundred and fifty drachmae, (forty pounds a year,) (Dion, l.
The best sense seems to be, that the Praetorian guards received twelve hundred and fifty drachmae, (forty pounds a year,) (Dion, l.
Any who were not prepared to sail at once might, by paying down the sum of fifty Corinthian drachmae, have a share in the colony without leaving Corinth.
It was this, with Potidaea, that most exhausted her revenues- Potidaea being blockaded by a force of heavy infantry (each drawing two drachmae a day, one for himself and another for his servant), which amounted to three thousand at first, and was kept at this number down to the end of the siege.
As early as the sixth century we hear that Solon, the law-giver of Athens, provided a bounty of a hundred [159] drachmae ( Footnote: A drachma would be equal to about 9½d.
Archias was about to discharge the man with a caution not to get into trouble, he salving the wound which he had inflicted with half a dozen drachmae, when an unexpected difficulty arose.
When Manolis mentioned a sum of fifteen hundred drachmae his eyes lit up like lamps, and after he'd collected his fish, groceries, booze and other items for the taverna, then they were off.
The relieving troops shall be maintained by the city sending them for thirty days from their arrival in the city that has required them, and upon their return in the same way: if their services be desired for a longer period, the city that sent for them shall maintain them, at the rate of three Aeginetan obols per day for a heavy-armed soldier, archer, or light soldier, and an Aeginetan drachma for a trooper.