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rouble [roo-buh l] Examples noun
ruble or rou·ble [roo-buh l] noun
- a silver or copper-alloy coin and monetary unit of Russia, the Soviet Union, and its successor states, equal to 100 kopecks.
Origin of ruble 1545–55; Russian rubl’; Old Russian rublĭ literally, stump, plug, derivative of rubiti to chop; probably orig. denoting a piece cut from a silver bar, or a bar notched for division into smaller pieces Examples from the Web for rouble Historical Examples of rouble
I’ve blown last night every rouble I had from my dad the other day.
Joseph Conrad
Every kopeck, every rouble, has gone to tighten that embrace.
Margaret Horton Potter
It is true it might have been worth no more than a kopeck, but a kopeck is to him what a rouble is to me.
Maxim Gorky
While here we have to go to the Exchange and try to aim well to make a rouble.
Maxim Gorky
The rouble is equivalent to about two shillings and a penny.
Through Siberia and Manchuria By Rail
Oliver George Ready
British Dictionary definitions for rouble rouble ruble noun
- the standard monetary unit of Belarus and Russia, divided into 100 kopecks
- the former standard monetary unit of Tajikistan, divided into 100 tanga
Word Origin for rouble C16: from Russian rubl silver bar, from Old Russian rublǐ bar, block of wood, from rubiti to cut up ruble noun
- a variant spelling of rouble
Word Origin and History for rouble ruble n.
unit of the Russian monetary system, 1550s, via French rouble, from Russian rubl’, perhaps from Old Russian rubiti “to chop, cut, hew,” so called because the original metallic currency of Russia (14c.) consisted of silver bars, from which the necessary amount was cut off; from Proto-Slavic *rub-, from PIE root *reub-, *reup- “to snatch” (see rip (v.)).