groschen
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A small old Austrian coin worth one hundredth of a schilling
- noun
- Archaic
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groschen
- He found a few groschen in his old coat pocket and decided to buy some bread.
Examples
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The price of the book was only five groschen, making it affordable for everyone.
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Not even a groschen to buy groceries.
Fiction book (2001) -
Gerhand had been born on Groschen, and every damn Gross seems to hang on to the accent forever.
Fiction book (1999) -
These, in their turn, were imitated in Flanders, Brabant, and the Rhineland (in the form of the groschen).
Academic text (1990) -
During the trip to Vienna, she exchanged her euros for groschen to buy souvenirs.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Groschen comes from an old word gros or grosso meaning 'large', because it started as a 'large coin' in Europe in the Middle Ages. It's the same root as English gross, so you can remember groschen as a coin name that later became a former Austrian unit of money.