Crossword clues for stater
stater
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stater \Stat"er\ (st[=a]t"[~e]r), n. One who states.
Stater \Sta"ter\ (st[=a]"t[~e]r), n. [L. stater, Gr. stath`r.] (Gr. Antiq.) The principal gold coin of ancient Greece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about [pounds]1 2s., or about $5.35 (in 1890 value). The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient coin, late 14c., from Greek stater, from histanai "to fix, to place in a balance," hence "to weigh;" literally "to cause to stand" (see stet). Once the name of a specific issue of coin, in ancient Greece it became a general name for the principal or standard coin in any place.\n
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece. Etymology 2
n. 1 One who states. 2 A citizen of the United States of America who is a confirmed or lifelong resident of one single state.
WordNet
n. any of the various silver or gold coins of ancient Greece
a resident of a particular state or group of states; "Keystone stater"; "farm staters"
Wikipedia
The stater ( or ; , literally "weight") was an ancient coin used in various regions of Greece. The term is also used for similar coins, imitating Greek staters, minted elsewhere in ancient Europe.
Usage examples of "stater".
Every life that was spared, Republican or Free Stater, seemed like a victory.
But to permit the impression to prevail that an unenlightened popular preference for a book, however many may hold it, is to be taken as a measure of its excellence, is like claiming that a debased Austrian coin, because it circulates, is as good as a gold stater of Alexander.
I carry with me a Greek stater which has made most of my decisions for me.
If you go too far east this summer, you may find that the spin of my little stater has been rather too fateful.
Glynde replaced the stater in some corner of his person, and beamed upon Jaikie.
In one handful there was a splendid gold stater, and in another a piece of Antoninus Pius.
Above her, Janet Stater sat on her bed, trying to focus on a magazine amidst the racket when Kendra entered the room, dragging her pillow.
The two army factions, represented by Sean MacKeon for the Free Staters and Dan Breen for the Republicans, met at the Mansion House to try to resolve their differences.
If they can get this far, maybe we can trap the Staters in a pincers movement.
Wexford town and allowed the Free Staters garrisoned there to leave unmolested.
Free Staters are constantly resupplied by the government, but the Republicans have to commandeer supplies from the citizenry, or get them through outright looting.
Someone told me the Staters caught him afterward and sent him to Ballymullen.
Our lads was writhing in the dirt with stones raining down on them and guns was blazing, the Staters was shooting them on the ground like dogs, and everything was burning and screaming and .
But, as she came back to demand some more gold staters, the young man had her put in prison, and the magistrates having discovered that she was guilty of many crimes, she was condemned to death, and thrown to the wild beasts.
The town of Lawrence, which the Free Staters held, was taken and pillaged by a wild mob under the leadership of the United States Marshal, and we find the Browns in a company marching to its relief.