öre

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ö·re

[œ-ruh]
noun, plural ö·re.
1.
a bronze coin of Norway, the 100th part of a krone.
2.
a zinc or bronze coin of Denmark, the 100th part of a krone.
3.
a bronze coin of Sweden, the 100th part of a krona.
4.
a fractional currency of the Faeroe Islands, the 100th part of a krona.
Also, ø·re [œ-ruh] (for defs. 1, 2).


Origin:
1600–10; Latin aureus a gold coin
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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öre (ˈørə)
 
n , pl öre
a Scandinavian monetary unit worth one hundredth of a Swedish krona and (øre) one hundredth of a Danish and Norwegian krone

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