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heller

heller

9 9.9
A former money unit worth one hundredth of a koruna used in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : heller
  • In Slovakia, a packet of chips costs about fifty hellers.

Examples

  • I found an old coin worth ten hellers while cleaning the attic.

  • In Germany, the heller; in France, the sou; and in England, the sterling appeared.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Beginning with the Supreme Court's decision in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008, federal constitutional law has expanded to recognize constitutional protections for the individual possession of firearms.

    Academic text (2017)

  • During the trip to Prague, I exchanged my euros for hellers to buy local souvenirs.

Synonyms

haler
vsheller
  • Archaic
1 9.9

A small coin that was one hundredth of a koruna in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

is the same unit but written using the other traditional spelling

Surface Forms

heller singular
hellers plural

Etymology

Heller for the small coin comes from a medieval German coin called the Haller, named after the town of Hall, and it meant a tiny piece of money. So a heller was 'a very small coin', which is why it later became the one-hundredth part of a koruna.