krone
1 Americannoun
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kroner
plural
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a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Denmark, equal to 100 öre. Kr., kr.
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a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of Norway, equal to 100 öre. Kr., kr.
noun
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the standard monetary unit of Denmark, the Faeroe Islands, and Greenland, divided into 100 øre
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the standard monetary unit of Norway, divided into 100 øre
noun
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a former German gold coin worth ten marks
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a former Austrian monetary unit
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
Example Sentences
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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 rise in oil prices also bolstered the krone as Norway is a major oil exporter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 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
And if you don’t eat breakfast in the hotel they charge you a krone for it anyhow.
From A Book of Burlesques by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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
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
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
Consequently the Czech School Society must keep them up and pay the expenses in connection with them, amounting to a loss of more than two million kronen up till now.
From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Vladimír Nosek
It amounted to something like four hundred and fifty kronen, if I remember correctly.
From A Fool and His Money by George Barr McCutcheon
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
Net profit rose 32% to 8.6 billion kroner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
It raises its Maersk target price to 17,123 Danish kroner from 14,030 kroner, and raises its Hapag-Lloyd target to 117 euros from 114 euros.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Copenhagen-listed shares jumped more than 10% to a one-year high of 455.50 Danish kroner in early afternoon European trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Renwick pushed the hundred kroner note toward Selim and straightened.
From The Secret Witness by George Gibbs
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