name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
groat
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ɡɹoʊt/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ɡɹəʊt/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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obsolete: /ɡɹɔːt/
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rhymes with -əʊt
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CMU ARPABET: G R OW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Hulled grain, chiefly hulled oats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical
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noun
Meaning 4
Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
Any unit of currency worth four pence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical
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noun
Meaning 5
Any of various old coins of England and Scotland.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, historical
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Synonyms: fourpence
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noun
Meaning 6
A proverbial small sum; a whit or jot.
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noun
Meaning 7
a former English silver coin worth four pennies
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fourpence
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Broader terms: coin
History
Etymology
* As a Scottish surname, nickname from Old Norse grautr (“porridge”). Compare Grout. * Also as a Scottish surname, variant of Grote. * As a German, Dutch and Danish surname, variant of Groth, Groot, Grott, and Grad.
From Middle English grot, from Old English grot, from Proto-West Germanic *grot, from Proto-Germanic *grutą, related to *greutą. More at grit, grout.
Possibly from Middle Dutch groot, the Old French gros Tournois (“a coin of Tours”), gros being from Medieval Latin denarius grossus (“large coin”). Related to German Groschen.
Across languages
Translations
34 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ձավար (javar) — hulled grain
- Armenian: կորկոտ (korkot) — hulled grain
- Belarusian: крупа́ (krupá) — hulled grain
- Bulgarian: булгур (bulgur) — hulled grain
- Czech: kroupa — hulled grain
- Danish: gryn — hulled grain
- Dutch: gort — hulled grain
- Estonian: kruup — hulled grain
- Finnish: suurimo — hulled grain
- Finnish: ryyni — hulled grain
- Georgian: ბურღული (burɣuli) — hulled grain
- German: Graupe — hulled grain
- German: Grütze — hulled grain
- Ancient Greek: ἄλφιτα (álphita) — hulled grain
- Ingrian: suurima — hulled grain
- Irish: piocuaran — hulled grain
- Latvian: putraimi — hulled grain
- Macedonian: гриз (griz) — hulled grain
- Norwegian: gryn — hulled grain
- Polish: krupa — hulled grain
- Russian: крупа́ (krupá) — hulled grain
- Slovak: krúpa — hulled grain
- Spanish: granos — hulled grain
- Swedish: gryn — hulled grain
- Ukrainian: крупа́ (krupá) — hulled grain
- Welsh: rhynionyn — hulled grain
- Welsh: talch — hulled grain
- Esperanto: kvar'penco — English silver four penny coin
- Irish: bonn bán — English silver four penny coin
- Japanese: グロート (gurōto) — English silver four penny coin
- Polish: groat — English silver four penny coin
- Scottish Gaelic: gròt — English silver four penny coin
- Welsh: grôt — English silver four penny coin
- Welsh: pisyn grôt — English silver four penny coin