groat

G0275600 (grōt)n. An English silver coin worth four pence, used from the 14th to the 17th century.

[Middle English grot, from Middle Dutch groot, a thick, large coin, translation of Medieval Latin (dēnārius) grossus, thick (denarius).]

groat

(ɡrəʊt) n (Historical Terms) an English silver coin worth four pennies, taken out of circulation in the 17th century[C14: from Middle Dutch groot, from Middle Low German gros, from Medieval Latin (denarius) grossus thick (coin); see groschen]

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(groʊt)

n. a former English silver coin equal to four pennies. [1325–75; < Middle Dutch groot large, name of a large coin; see great]

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groat - a former English silver coin worth four penniesfourpencecoin - a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

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groat

History an English silver coin worth four pennies, taken out of circulation in the 17th century

Groat

(Russian grosh, Polish grosz, German Groschen; from Latin denarius grossus, a heavy coin), a coin of various periods and countries.

Coinage of the groat began in Italy in the 12th century and in many other European countries in the 13th and 14th. Initially it was a large silver coin. In the 14th and 15th centuries the weight of the groat and the quality of its metal declined and it came to be used for small change.

In Russia coinage of the grosh was started in 1654. In the 17th and 18th centuries copper groshi worth 2 kopeks were in circulation; in the 19th century the grosh came to be called a half kopek. The groat is a present-day coin of Poland and Austria: the Polish grosz equals ¹/₁₀₀ of a zloty (there are 50-, 20-, 10-, 5-, and 1-grosz coins in circulation), and the Austrian Groschen equals ¹/₁₀₀ of a Schilling (with 50-, 20-, 10-, 2-, and 1-Groschen coins in circulation). Figuratively the term “groat” is used to mean a paltry sum.

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noun a former English silver coin worth four pennies

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