rupee
Pluralrupees
- 1The money used in countries such as India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
Like the dollar in the United States, but used in countries such as India.
She paid fifty rupees for the bus ticket into town.
Tourists often change their dollars into the rupee before they land.
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- 2A silver coin used long ago in India, from about the 1500s to the 1900s.
Like an old silver coin you might see behind glass in a museum.
He buried a handful of silver rupees beneath the floorboards for safekeeping.
Each rupee carried the stamp of the ruling emperor on its face.
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- 3The money that players collect and spend in the land of Hyrule.
Like coins in a video game that you gather to buy things.
Link found twenty rupees hidden inside the tall grass.
She needed just one more rupee to afford the wooden shield.
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Origin
This word was made by Sher Shah Suri, a 16th-century sultan, from a Hindustani word meaning "rupee." It goes back to a Sanskrit word for a silver coin.