stater
IPA: stˈeɪtɝ
noun
- A gold, silver or electrum coin of ancient Greece.
- One who states.
- A citizen of the United States of America who is a confirmed or lifelong resident of one single state.
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Examples of "stater" in Sentences
- I'm a stater author of this article.
- His dad was a all stater in Illinois also.
- A stater coin was made in the stater trite denomination.
- After that he is a current stater of the 11 players that play.
- It is an electrum stater of a turtle coin, coined at Aegina island.
- Stater staff is entirely students, primarily in the journalism school.
- The silver stater with a Turtle is a coin from the 6th century Greece.
- The reverse of the gold stater shows a horse reared up on its hind legs.
- Andrews was a three year stater for the Nebraska Cornhuskers at defensive end.
- Chris einke continued to start at QB in place of injured stater Jake Delhomme.
- Coins larger than the drachma also existed; the largest denomination in each weight system is known as a stater.
- The stater was a Greek gold coin; its value is usually given at about $5.00, but Grote here makes it considerably less.
- They make one with an electric stater, which is not really necessary unless you lack the strength to give the rope a couple quick pulls.
- The stater was a unit of currency; probably in this case the Corinthian stater, almost equal to two Attic drachmas; see Appendix J, Classical Greek Currency, ©4.
- A sicle or shekel of silver, (which was also called a stater,) according to the standard or weight of the sanctuary, which was the most just and exact, was half an ounce of silver, that is, about half a crown of English money.
- Peter would find in the mouth of the first fish that took his bait, is more correctly designated by the literal translation "stater," [809] indicating a silver coin equivalent to a shekel, or two didrachms, and therefore the exact amount of the tax for two persons.
- We are not told what sort of fish it was in whose mouth Peter found the "stater," a piece of money worth about three shillings, which was exactly enough to give, as the Lord told him, to those who had come to ask for money to meet some expenses belonging to the temple.