INDIAN RUPEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian rupee mean? 

• INDIAN RUPEE (noun)
  The noun INDIAN RUPEE has 1 sense:

1. the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise

  Familiarity information: INDIAN RUPEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN RUPEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Indian rupee; rupee

Hypernyms ("Indian rupee" is a kind of...):

Indian monetary unit (monetary unit in India)

Meronyms (parts of "Indian rupee"):

paisa (a fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh and India and Nepal and Pakistan)

 Context examples 

She showed it to me, Watson, and it was an Indian rupee.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)