Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A Swedish unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the krona.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A modern unit of value in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, the hundredth part of the crown (Danish krone, Swedish krona), and worth about one fourth of a United States cent; also, the coin corresponding to it.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A Swedish unit of currency that makes up the krona, 100 öre equals one krona.
  • noun Common misspelling of øre.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Swedish, from Old Norse eyrir, from Latin aureus, gold coin, from aurum, gold.]

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From Swedish öre, from Latin aureus ("a Roman coin; golden")

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