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kronor

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechneutral

Kronor is the money used in Sweden. One is a krona and several are kronor.

The plural catches people out, since krona, kronor and kronen all look similar and belong to different countries. Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland all use a currency with a name meaning crown, and none of them is interchangeable. Sweden has stayed out of the euro and has moved further towards a cashless economy than almost anywhere else, so a great many Swedish shops no longer take kronor in cash at all.

Definitions of kronor

  1. 1nounkronorThe currency of Sweden, plural of krona.C2

    “The bill came to four hundred kronor.”

Also accepted in games: krona

Where it comes from

  1. Swedish

    krona — crown

  2. English

    krona

  3. English, today

    kronor

krona Borrowed from Swedish krona (“crown”). a doublet of corona and crown and korona and koruna and króna and krone.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Man Called Ove

First appears in chapter 3 of A Man Called Ove.

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kronor in the wild

  • Arjeplog has in the past offered families 100,000 kronor, or individuals 25,000 kronor to move to the town.

    Arjeplog

  • The winner's team is awarded 1,000 Swedish kronor per goal scored by the player, which goes to the club's youth programme.

    Håkan Loob Trophy

  • TV4 Norge started in 1990 and was shut down in 1992 because it didn't make enough money, having accumulated a debt of 10 million kronor.

    TV4 Norge

  • TV4 started Tre kronor in 1994 to compete for the viewers of SVT series Rederiet.

    Tre kronor (TV series)

  • The new ground was originally budgeted to cost 398 million kronor, but ultimately cost 695 million kronor.

    Stadion, Malmö

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.