Shekel

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several ancient units of weight, especially a Hebrew unit equal to about a half ounce.
  • n. A gold or silver coin equal in weight to one of these units, especially the chief silver coin of the ancient Hebrews.
  • n. Slang A coin.
  • n. Slang Money.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A currency unit of both ancient and modern Israel.
  • n. money.
  • n. An ancient unit of weight equivalent to one-fiftieth of a mina.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An ancient weight and coin used by the Jews and by other nations of the same stock.
  • n. A jocose term for money.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A unit of weight first used in Babylonia, and there equal to one sixtieth part of a mina.
  • n. The chief silver coin of the Jews, probably first coined in 141 b. c. by Simon Maccabæus.
  • n. plural Coins; coin; money.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the basic unit of money in Israel
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    Cross Reference
       agora    ILS    NIS   
    Form
    new shekel   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    coin   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dekle    freckle    heckle    seckel    speckle   
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