johannes
noun
a gold coin formerly used as currency in Portugal, first issued in the early 18th century.
johannes
1 American
[joh-han-eez, -is]
/ dʒoʊˈhæn iz, -ɪs /
noun
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johannes
plural
Johannes
2
American
[yoh-hah-nis, -han-is]
/ joʊˈhɑ nɪs, -ˈhæn ɪs /
noun
johannes
British
/ dʒəʊˈhæniːz /
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of johannes
1750–60, after the name Joannes (John V, of Portugal) in the coin's legend. See John
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Of gold pieces there were the johannes, or joe, the doubloon, the moidore, and pistole, with English and French guineas, carolins, ducats, and chequins.
From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
I heard also that Mary Blankaart has lost a silk purse, and in it five gold jacobus, and some half and quarter johannes.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Theo. Hampe
A full johannes was called a "half-joe," and a double johannes was called a "joe."
From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie
To this place I brought with me from my last master's, two johannes, three old Spanish dollars, and two thousand of coppers, besides five pounds of my wife's money.
From A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa, but Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America, Related by Himself by Venture Smith
Write the following names and words properly: "tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, saturn;—christ, christian, christmas, christendom, michaelmas, indian, bacchanals;—Easthampton, omega, johannes, aonian, levitical, deuteronomy, european."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
The company crafts books the same way Johannes Gutenberg did around 600 years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" will go on show in Osaka this week, on a rare trip abroad for the 17th-century Johannes Vermeer masterpiece and potentially its last to Japan.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
More than a century ago, Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas demonstrated that changing the magnetization of a material could physically cause it to rotate.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
Johannes cut three tenths off his Division I winning time last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
In the beginning of the seventeenth century, another astrologer-monk, Johannes Kepler, refined Copernicus’s theory, making it even more accurate than the Ptolemaic system.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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