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Definition of groat in English: groatnoun ɡrəʊtɡroʊt historical 1Any of various medieval European coins, in particular an English silver coin worth four old pence, issued between 1351 and 1662. Example sentencesExamples - Surrey Street Market has been at the heart of Croydon's daily life for more than 700 years, with cries of ‘who'll give me a pound, penny or groat?’
- With its medieval history, Lacock and its Abbey may have leased in lugs long before the demise of the groat in the 17th century, although the groat was deemed to be worth four pennies.
- Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
- I bet Edward III's subjects thought that the silver groat was a fine coin too but I haven't seen many of those around recently.
- A halfpenny was of course half a penny; a groat was worth fourpence; and a sixpence (popularly called a ‘tester’) was worth six pennies, or 6 d.
- 1.1archaic in singular, with negative A small amount.
Origin From Middle Dutch groot or Middle Low German grōte 'great, thick', hence 'thick penny'; compare with groschen. Rhymes afloat, bloat, boat, capote, coat, connote, cote, dote, emote, float, gloat, goat, misquote, moat, mote, note, oat, outvote, promote, quote, rote, shoat, smote, stoat, Succoth, table d'hôte, Terre Haute, throat, tote, vote, wrote Definition of groat in US English: groatnounɡrōtɡroʊt historical 1Any of various medieval European coins, in particular an English silver coin worth four old pence, issued between 1351 and 1662. Example sentencesExamples - A halfpenny was of course half a penny; a groat was worth fourpence; and a sixpence (popularly called a ‘tester’) was worth six pennies, or 6 d.
- With its medieval history, Lacock and its Abbey may have leased in lugs long before the demise of the groat in the 17th century, although the groat was deemed to be worth four pennies.
- Surrey Street Market has been at the heart of Croydon's daily life for more than 700 years, with cries of ‘who'll give me a pound, penny or groat?’
- Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
- I bet Edward III's subjects thought that the silver groat was a fine coin too but I haven't seen many of those around recently.
- 1.1archaic in singular, with negative A small sum.
Origin From Middle Dutch groot or Middle Low German grōte ‘great, thick’, hence ‘thick penny’; compare with groschen. |