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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
krone
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cutting rates will be necessary if the central bank is to prevent the krone from strengthening any more against the mark.
▪ The total energy tax bill for industry in 1990 totalled 6 billion krone.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Krone

Krone \Kro"ne\ (kr[=o]"n[asl]), n. [Dan.] A coin of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, of the value of about twenty-eight cents (in 1913). See Crown, n., 9.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
krone

name of currency unit and silver coin in Scandinavian countries, 1875, from Danish krone (plural kroner), Swedish krona (plural kronor), literally "crown" (see crown). Also the name of a 10-mark gold piece issued by the German Empire. So called for the devices stamped on them.

Wiktionary
krone

n. The currency of Iceland, Denmark and Norway, divided into 100 øre, except in Iceland where 1 króna = 100 eyrir#Icelandic.

WordNet
krone
  1. n. the basic unit of money in Norway [syn: Norwegian krone]

  2. the basic unit of money in Denmark [syn: Danish krone]

  3. [also: kroner (pl), kronen (pl)]

Wikipedia
Krone

Krone (the cognate of Crown) may refer to:

Krone (Danish coin)

The krone coin is the second-smallest denomination of the Danish krone.

Krone (mountain)

Krone (3,187 m) is a mountain of the Silvretta Alps, located on the border between Austria and Switzerland. It lies south of the Fluchthorn, on the range between the Jamtal (Tyrol) and the Val Fenga (Graubünden).

Usage examples of "krone".

And that is how I introduced her, as one of the other parents, to Hans Krone, who stood waiting at the foot of the flimsy short stairs that had been rolled up to the plane.

The sun was bright, but Krone was wearing a tan cotton overcoat that emphasized his bulk.

Surreptitious exploitation, of currency fluctuations particularly, fueled a discreet auxiliary engine of the Berlin banking boom, and I knew that Krone was a prince of that realm, too.

I had briefed Krone by phone, telling him the simple truth that my seventeen-year-old son had gone to Berlin without permission, probably for the May Day celebrations in the Soviet sector, and I wanted to find him.

I could sense in Krone now, even in his brisk greeting of the woman beside me, the assumption that there was more to her presence here than that.

When I slid in next to her, ahead of Krone, she was waiting to make eye contact with me, to flick an eyebrow, alerting me.

The midday heat had not registered on me until now, when Krone snapped his handkerchief out of his breast pocket to wipe his large forehead.

Indeed, the wobbly stairs seemed to amuse Krone, and with his large frame he shook them deliberately as he ascended, pounding his feet like a kid.

We imitated Krone in turning our backs to the policeman, each reaching to grasp a cracked leather strap and taking up a position to look out the window.

We handed them over, and Krone in turn passed them up, with his own, to the woman at the desk.

They exchanged a few words in German, then Krone motioned us along without waiting for the woman to return our passports.

I was behind Krone, and was startled to see him throw up his hands, allowing one policeman to pat him down while another eyed the form he had filled out.

The normally ingratiating Krone met my eyes coldly, as if impatient that I should have been surprised to be intimidated, even afraid.

The crowd stretched across a vast open square--Alexanderplatz, what Krone had referred to as Alex.

Their goose-stepping sent a surprised chill through me, which Krone registered.