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# drachma

noun (drachma, drachmas)

«drachma» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

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

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

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «drachma» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/drachma/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«drachma» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/drachma.html) on Mova free.