Definitions
Etymologies
- Polish, from Czech groš, from Medieval Latin (dēnārius) grossus, thick (denarius). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Wie ist so grosz und schwer die Last [1914] 7 Praise and Thanksgiving 1”
Paul Gerhardt as a Hymn Writer and his Influence on English Hymnody
“Thirty-three roubles ...' groaned Grochowski, 'chop me to bits, but I won't take a grosz more ....”
“Ein Diadem erkaempfen ist grosz; es wegwerfen ist goettlich.”
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
“Ein Diadem erkämpfen ist grosz; es wegwerfen ist göttlich.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘grosz’.
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Money
This started out as a Scrabble list, so I'm personally limiting myself to listing words which are acceptable in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, but go ahead and list whatever you can find...
lek, shekel, sheqalim, qindar, qindars, qindarka, qintar, qintars, dollar, dollars, penny, pennies and 143 more...
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Money
The various names for "money" have been scattered about the world in various countries and are now coming together at last in this hopefully vast list.
grosze, money, cash, dough, euro, grosz, zloty, toman, pood, pelf, krone, pesewa and 22 more...
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Clearinghouse
For stuff to simply reside.
calcar, pinion, espadrille, antipodes, peregrine, cormorant, tanager, vireo, farrago, undervest, passerine, oscine and 881 more...
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Quenelles of Random Palavery
More randomly-garnered terms from the world of words that don't quite yet fit into my other lists.
Goddidit, barcelona, filigrain, good-natured, ill-natured, half-bit, endosome, underplaying, parotid, denormalization, sleightgeist, wheezing and 2334 more...
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