Lexic.us

Definition of Rupee

1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents.

2. Noun. The basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents.

3. Noun. The basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa.

4. Noun. The basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents.

5. Noun. The basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa.

6. Noun. The basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise.

Definition of Rupee

1. n. A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.

Definition of Rupee

1. Noun. The common name for the monetary currencies used in modern India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Seychelles, or Mauritius. ¹

2. Noun. A silver coin, circulating in India 16th–20th centuries, weighing 170–180 troy grains (180 troy grains from 1833) or one tola. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rupee

1. a monetary unit of India [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rupee

runtish runtishly runtling runtlings runts runty runup runups runway runway model

runway models runwaylike runways rupatadine rupchanda rupee (current term) rupees rupellary rupes rupestral

rupestral plant rupestrian rupestrine plant rupia rupia escharotica rupiah rupiahs rupial rupial syphilid rupias

Literary usage of Rupee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1868)
"This remedy, however, docs not apply to burgh acres, or to patches of laud less than four acres in extent rupee' is the name of a silver coin current in ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"6d. per sicca rupee, being the East India Company's rate of * exchange between India and Great Brit- [* 462] ain at the time the said legacy became payable, ..."

3. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji (1901)
"This is the true rupee—18o grains of standard silver at its market value, with nearly 4 grains more for mintage, is convertible into a rupee without any ..."

4. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"The rupee is nominally equal in value to two shillings ; and in former days ten rupees were heM equal to a pound sterling. While for Indian purposes the ..."

5. The Principles of Money by James Laurence Laughlin (1903)
"The history of the Indian rupee since June, 1893, also presents a most interesting case of token money, similar The Indian in essential points to that of ..."

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