"piaster" meaning in English

See piaster in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: piasters [plural]
Rhymes: -æstə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} piaster (plural piasters)
  1. Alternative spelling of piastre. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: piastre Categories (topical): Currencies
    Sense id: en-piaster-en-noun-2MH~8Ap0 Disambiguation of Currencies: 50 50
  2. The subdivision of the South Sudanese pound, equal to 1/100 of a pound. Categories (topical): Currencies Categories (place): South Sudan
    Sense id: en-piaster-en-noun-ZhzKMGke Disambiguation of Currencies: 50 50 Disambiguation of South Sudan: 1 99 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 24 76

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for piaster meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piasters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "piaster (plural piasters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "piastre"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Currencies",
          "orig": "en:Currencies",
          "parents": [
            "Currency",
            "Money",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of piastre."
      ],
      "id": "en-piaster-en-noun-2MH~8Ap0",
      "links": [
        [
          "piastre",
          "piastre#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "24 76",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Currencies",
          "orig": "en:Currencies",
          "parents": [
            "Currency",
            "Money",
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "1 99",
          "kind": "place",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "South Sudan",
          "orig": "en:South Sudan",
          "parents": [
            "Africa",
            "Earth",
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The subdivision of the South Sudanese pound, equal to 1/100 of a pound."
      ],
      "id": "en-piaster-en-noun-ZhzKMGke",
      "links": [
        [
          "subdivision",
          "subdivision"
        ],
        [
          "South Sudanese",
          "South Sudanese"
        ],
        [
          "pound",
          "pound"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-æstə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "piaster"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Rhymes:English/æstə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/æstə(ɹ)/3 syllables",
    "en:Currencies",
    "en:South Sudan"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "piasters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "piaster (plural piasters)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "piastre"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of piastre."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "piastre",
          "piastre#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The subdivision of the South Sudanese pound, equal to 1/100 of a pound."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "subdivision",
          "subdivision"
        ],
        [
          "South Sudanese",
          "South Sudanese"
        ],
        [
          "pound",
          "pound"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "rhymes": "-æstə(ɹ)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "piaster"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.