Definitions for crores

crores crore

Spelling: [krawr, krohr]
IPA: /krɔr, kroʊr/

Crores is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 74 anagrams from letters in crores (ceorrs).

Definitions for crores

noun

  1. (in India) the sum of ten million, especially of rupees; one hundred lacs.

Origin of crores

First recorded in 1600-10, crore is from the Hindi word kroṛ, karoṛ

Examples for crores

She describes 100,000 with one word—a 'lahk'; she describes ten millions with one word—a 'crore'.

Why, the Pearl Scarf alone is valued at a crore of rupees, which is about three million, three hundred thousand in our money.

Lac, a term employed in India for a hundred thousand, a crore amounting to 100 lacs, usually of money.

The half retained by the Oude Sovereign was estimated at the same; but it now yields to the Sovereign only one crore.

When the cession took place, each half was estimated at one crore and thirty-three lacs.

We should not be surprised to be told that the amount spent within the last thirty years alone amounts to a crore of rupees.

He was brought to Lahore and had to pay a crore (ten millions) of rupees.

Word Value for crores
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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