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Definition of Thebe
1. Noun. 100 thebe equal 1 pula in Botswana.
Definition of Thebe
1. Noun. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of a Botswanan pula. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thebe
1. a monetary unit of Botswana [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thebe
Literary usage of Thebe
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Description of Greece by Pausanias (1824)
"After her, Corcyra stands; then thebe; and, last of all, Asopus. Neptune, too,
is said to have been connected with Corcyra: and Pindar, in his odes, ..."
2. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1850)
"[Tradition concerning the Separation of Sexe» at Prayer in the Ark.'] " thebe is
a tradition that in the Ark ' so soon as ever the day began to break, ..."
3. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"THE {'ects and foreigners, by his cruelties and piracies, and at ast his wife
thebe conspired with her three half-brothers to murder him. (BC 359. ..."
4. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"Pliny t and Juvenal t have both given thebe as a singular word, adhering more
closely to the Egyptian original. ..."
5. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"thebe was a proposition made at the council board which would do much good, were
it put in execution over all England ; which was to take away the eldest ..."
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