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Definition of Leone
1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents.
Definition of Leone
1. Noun. A unit of currency of Sierra Leone, divided into 100 cents. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Leone
1. a monetary unit of Sierra Leone [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leone
Literary usage of Leone
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1828)
"1817, Army, . 954 Jin. 4th 1817, to Jan. 4th 1824, None. Navy, . 32 Grand Total
at Sierra leone, 2954 In the journals of the House of Commons, vol. ..."
2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The peninsula of Sierra leone, situated on the West Coast of Africa, ... The total
area of Sierra leone 1ч about 27925 sq. mues, and the total population ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The colony proper is limited to the Sierra leone peninsula. It was the place
whence in 1562 the first slaves were taken to the West Indies under the British ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY AND MONTHLY RECORD OF GEOGRAPHY.
Sierra leone and the Interior, to the Upper Waters of the Niger. ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"1792-1807] Sierra leone. The slave-trade.—Malta. He was at first found guilty on
the charge of applying torture illegally, the counsel for the prosecution ..."
6. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1846)
"leone is, it is well known, a colonial establishment of Great Britain, on the
West Coast of Africa, consisting of a peninsula about twenty-five miles in ..."
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