krone

¹ American  

[kroh-nuh] / ˈkroʊ nə /

noun

• kroner
  plural

1. a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Denmark, equal to 100 öre. Kr., kr.

2. a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Norway, equal to 100 öre. Kr., kr.

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krone ² American  

[kroh-nuh] / ˈkroʊ nə /

noun

• kronen
  plural

1. a former gold coin of Germany, equal to 10 marks.

2. korona.

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krone ¹ British  

/ ˈkrəʊnə /

noun

1. the standard monetary unit of Denmark, the Faeroe Islands, and Greenland, divided into 100 øre

2. the standard monetary unit of Norway, divided into 100 øre

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krone ² British  

/ ˈkrəʊnə /

noun

1. a former German gold coin worth ten marks

2. a former Austrian monetary unit

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• kronen
  plural
• kroner
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of krone¹

1870–75; < Danish, Norwegian < Middle Low German < Medieval Latin corōna; see króna

Origin of krone²

From German, dating back to 1870–75; see origin at krone ¹

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

krone kronen kroner

Skogmo said high U.S. prices were not a surprise, especially with the Norwegian krone weak against the dollar.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

The Norwegian krone, which benefits from higher oil prices as Norway is an oil exporter, reached a two-and-a-half-year high of 11.0917 per euro overnight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Analysts anticipate Novo Nordisk to report earnings of 4.90 Danish krone per share on sales of 76.5 billion Danish krone.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025

The defence minister did not give an exact figure for the package, but Danish media estimated it would be around 12-15bn krone.

From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2024

Austria-Hungary, gold standard, has as its unit the krone, equal to $0.2026; 20-krone and 10-krone pieces are coined in gold, also gold ducats, worth $2.288; silver coins are of various fineness....

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

So high-pressure were Founder Patterson's sales methods that today the U. S. market is saturated; 55% of N. C. R.'s business is done abroad where shopkeepers still toss centimes, kopeks, drachmas, kronen into tills.

From Time Magazine Archive

After 20 years and many thousands of kronen, the heroine is flabbergasted to discover that her nephew never became a priest at all.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Government employees in the Post and Telegraph Offices, having been refused increases in salaries and Christmas bonuses amounting to about 11,000,000,000 kronen, went on strike.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1872 the Royal Musical Academy of Sweden made Grieg a member; in 1874 the Norwegian Storthing granted him an annual stipend of 1600 kronen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

In Agram you can buy them cheaper, and in Paradise no doubt they will be given to us for nothing, but here they cost four kronen each. 

From Beasts and Super-Beasts by Saki

It also starts DSV at sector perform with a 1,250 Danish kroner price target and Kuehne + Nagel at sector perform with a 235 Swiss franc target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Officials in the Avannaata municipality on the island nation’s west coast approved the plan, offering fishers 300 Danish kroner, or about $45, per shark heart.

From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026

Bernstein rates Maersk stock at underperform with a 14,100 Danish kroner price target.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Analyst Emmanuel Papadakis cut his rating to sell from hold and cut the price target by 9%, to 265 kroner.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Bentzen took him at his word, and immediately set to work at it with Amundsen; he thought one did not always have the chance of earning 10 kroner so easily.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Fridtjof Nansen

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