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⚖️ A small weight 💧 A small amount 🪙 Greek coin
drachm

drachm

9.9
An old Greek coin used to buy things
  • noun
  • /drækm/
  • Archaic
translation icon : dracma
  • In the market, he exchanged a drachm for fresh olives.

Examples

  • The ancient coin from the museum was a drachm dating back to 500 BC.

  • One drachm I displayed, bidding him exchange it for tickets to paradise.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • He paid for his meal with a drachm he found in his pocket.

Synonyms

drachma
vsdrachm
5 9.9

Money used in Greece before the euro

is only an ancient coin and a unit of weight formerly used as money

Surface Forms

drachm singular
drachms plural

Etymology

Drachm goes back to Greek drachmē, 'a handful', because coins were often named by the weight of metal they held. So the drachm was both a small silver coin and a unit of weight used as money in ancient Greece.