drachmanoun [ C ]
uk/ˈdræk.mə/us/ˈdræk.mə/the standard unit of money used in Greece before the introduction of the euro
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- The drachma was the principal silver coin among the Greeks, containing sixty-six grains of pure metal, worth about seventeen and a half cents.