groat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

noun

Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
Any unit of currency worth four pence.
A historical English coin representing such a unit: a silver coin worth four English pennies, still minted as one of the set of Maundy coins.
A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.

name

/ɡɹoʊt/ /ɡɹəʊt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-groat.wav /ɡɹɔːt/

groat groats

From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout.

fourpence

grit grits grout grouts gruel meal semolina Margaret

Embden groats groaty grotty groatsworth shovegroat slidegroat

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.

Back to search All on G Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary