drachma
2 synonyms for drachma, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — Greece's currency in antiquity and again between 1832 and 2001, denoted by the symbol ₯, later succeeded by the euro.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin drachma and its etymon Doric Greek δρᾰχμᾱ́ (drăkhmā́). Doublet of dram, diram, dirham, dirhem, adarme, and dam.
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