livre
/ˈliːvɹə/
livre noun: a unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
Noun
livre (plural livres)
- A unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
- They like to see them awarded comfortable pensions. Is it 700,000 livres a year to the Polignac family?1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 115
- He never, it should be noted, totally renounced his inheritance: a critic of the court round, he benefited to the tune of a cool two million livres a year from royal largesse […].2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 30
- A lira
- An ancient French unit of weight, equal to about 1 avoirdupois pound.
livre meaning in Tamil
livre in Tamil
- நூல், புத்தகம்
Forms of livre
| plural | livres |
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Origin of livre
Borrowed from French livre. Doublet of arratel, libbra, Libra, libra, lira, litra, litre, and rottol.
Words formed from livre
Words that rhyme with livre
Questions about livre
- What does livre mean?
- Livre means a unit of currency formerly used in France, divided into 20 sols or sous.
- What is livre in Tamil?
- Livre in Tamil is நூல், புத்தகம். See Livre meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is livre?
- Livre is a noun.
- How do you pronounce livre?
- Livre is pronounced /ˈliːvɹə/.
- What is the plural of livre?
- The plural of livre is livres.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: livre (page history and authors); livre (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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