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Meaning of Florin | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ˈflɒɹɪn

Definitions

  1. Any of several gold coins once produced in Florence, Italy; model for the other currencies.
  2. A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
  3. A guilder (pre-Euro currency unit of the Netherlands).
  4. The currency of Aruba, divided into 100 cents, symbol ƒ.
  5. A pre-decimal British coin, worth two shillings or ten new pence.
  6. A pre-decimal Australian, and New Zealand, coin, worth 24 pence or a tenth of a pound.

Equivalents

العربية الفلورين
Català florí
Suomi floriini
Français florin
Gaeilge airgead croise
Galego florín
Italiano Fiorino
Nederlands florijn
Русский флори́н

Examples

“[I]n 1646, during the phenomenon known as "Tulipomania", a tulip like the red and white 'Admirael van der Eijck', or the purple-splashed 'Generalen van Gouda' would sell for more than 1,000 Dutch florins, at a time when the average annual income of a skilled worker was about 300 florins.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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