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# drachma

«drachma» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old silver coin of ancient Greece, also a unit of money** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (drachma, drachmas)

### meaning for a pupil

an old silver coin of ancient Greece, also a unit of money [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drachma/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old Greek stories the price or amount of money, counted in drachmas

### examples

- The basket cost him a hundred drachmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drachma/#x1)
- He counted his silver drachmas one by one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drachma/#x2)
- The fisherman sold the fish for ten drachmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drachma/#x3)

### note

each drachma is one coin, so counting drachmas is counting coins; a total of 100 drachmas is 100 units of money

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «drachma» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drachma/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.