crore
Ten million: 10,000,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000Ten million (10⁷): 10,000,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000.
» Tom gave me one crore rupees.
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1 senses(India, Pakistan)Ten million (10⁷): 10,000,000, that is, with Indian digit grouping, 1,00,00,000.
Meronym: lakh
The population of Gujarat is 3.39 crores.
the number that is represented as a one followed by 7 zeros; ten million
Examples
3 sentencesTom gave me one crore rupees.
Four crore people are using internet in Bangladesh.
Thirty crore people of this earth speak the Bengali language.
Origin
Borrowed from Hindustani करोड़ / کروڑ (karoṛ).Borrowed from Hindustani करोड़ / کروڑ (karoṛ).
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Forms
plural: crore / croresWord family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.