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Definition of Sucre
1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos.
2. Noun. The judicial capital and seat of the judiciary in Bolivia.
Definition of Sucre
1. n. A silver coin of Ecuador, worth 68 cents.
Definition of Sucre
1. Proper noun. The constitutional capital of Bolivia. ¹
2. Noun. The former currency of Ecuador, divided into 100 centavos ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sucre
1. a monetary unit of Ecuador [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sucre
Literary usage of Sucre
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rise of the Spanish-American Republics, as Told in the Lives of Their Liberators by William Spence Robertson (1918)
"CHAPTER VIII ANTONIO JOSE DE sucre "Ip God should give to men the right to ...
The founder of the sucre family in northern South America was Carlos de sucre ..."
2. Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature by Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1835)
"sucre then resigned the discretionary power, which he had exercised hitherto ...
But sucre endeavored to guard against the example being followed in Bolivia ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy, and of the Political by John Joseph Lalor (1883)
"Two insurrections against marshal Ayacucho (sucre), one at La Paz, on the 25th
of December, 1827, the other at Chuquisaca, on the 18th of April of the ..."