Definitions for drachma

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drachma drach·ma

Spelling: [drak-muh, drahk-]

IPA: /ˈdræk mə, ˈdrɑk-/

Drachma is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in drachma (aacdhmr).

Definitions for drachma

noun

1. a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of modern Greece until the euro was adopted, equal to 100 lepta. Abbreviation: dr., drch.
2. the principal silver coin of ancient Greece.
3. a small unit of weight in ancient Greece, approximately equivalent to the U.S. and British apothecaries' dram.
4. any of various modern weights, especially a dram.

Origin of drachma

1520-30; Latin Greek drachmḗ, probably equivalent to drach- base of drássesthai to grasp + -mē noun suffix (hence literally, handful)

Examples for drachma

“This is not just about the euro or the drachma,” Samaras told a Greek reporter last week.

Nine oboli were a drachma and a half, or about six sestertii.

"I would have given a thousand drachma to have got to the train," said the girl moodily.

Fifteen hundred drachma a month for that, and he says he lose money on the job.

Five obols went to the drachma, and a hundred drachmas to the mina.

Men who take from the poor daily interest for a drachma, and spend it in debauchery.

Seven hundred drachma a month I pay him, and he says it's not enough.

They reckon that the Greeks will use their votes to demand a return to the drachma and trigger a stampede on the banks.

Oh, she was most reasonable: one drachma, and a loaf of bread.

In Italy the equivalent is the lira, and in Greece the drachma.