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Lira definition

lîrə, lērä
lire
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The primary unit of currency in Italy, Malta, San Marino, and the Vatican City before the adoption of the euro.
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The former basic monetary unit of:
  • Italy, San Marino, and Vatican City, superseded in 2002 by the.
  • Malta, superseded in 2008 by the.
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The basic monetary unit of Turkey.
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The currency unit of Malta, comprised of 100 cents; the currency unit of Vatican City, comprised of 100 centesimos; the currency unit of San Marino, comprised of 100 centesimos; the currency unit of Turkey, comprised of 100 kurus.
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The currency of Lebanon (also pound), Syria (also pound), Jordan (also dinar), former currency of Italy, Malta, San Marino and the Vatican City, superseded by the euro.
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The former currency of Israel, superseded by the sheqel.
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Singular:
lira
Plural:
lire

Origin of lira

  • Italian from Old Italian from Old Provençal liura from Latin lībra a unit of weight, pound

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Italian lira.

    From Wiktionary

Lira Sentence Examples

  • The minimum annual premium is six lire for an annuity of one lira per day at the age of sixty, and insurance against sickness.

  • This is a simple harmonic wave-line, whose mean distance from the axis is a, whose wave-length is lira, and whose amplitude is c. The internal pressure corresponding to this unduloid is as before p = T/a.

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