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schœne

schœne is the alternative form of schene.

Meaning of schene

Noun

schene (plural schenes)

  1. (historical) An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirty-two to sixty stadia.
    • Herodotus has fixed the measure of the schene, in Lower Egypt, at four miles, or a league and a quarter.1786, Mr. Savary, “Letters on Egypt”, in The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, volume 62, page 440

Forms of schœne

pluralschœnes

Questions about schœne

What is schœne the alternative form of?
Schœne is the alternative form of schene.

Words near schœne in the dictionary

  1. Schönlein-Henoch purpura
  2. Schönlein-Henoch purpuras
  3. Schöpf-Schulz-Passarge syndrome
  4. Schütz
  5. Schützenfest
  6. schœne
  7. schœnes
  8. sci
  9. sci fi
  10. sci-fi
  11. sci-fic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: schœne (page history and authors); schene (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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