Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See Table at currency.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In the French system of coinage, the hundredth part of a franc, or about one fifth of a United States cent. Its abbreviation is c. Coins of a single centime have been struck in copper and bronze, though little used. There are also coins of 2, 3, 5, and 10 centimes.
- n. A current money of account in Haiti, the hundredth part of a gourde or dollar, equal to ninety-seven hundredths of a United States cent.
- n. More commonly, the thousandth part of a liter. The liter was intended to equal one thousand cubic centimeters and the weight of one liter of distilled water at the temperature of its maximum density was intended to equal the kilogram. The mass of the kilogram definitely adopted differs from the intended mass by one or more parts in a hundred thousand: since the liter is always determined by weighing, it also differs from its intended volume by a similarly small fraction. When this small fraction is negligible, the thousandth part of a liter is commonly called a cubic centimeter. The name milliliter is preferred by many for the thousandth part of the liter.
Wiktionary
- n. A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc.
- n. A coin having face value of one centime.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (F. Coinage) The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
- n. a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo
Etymologies
- French, from Old French centisme, from Latin centēsimus, hundredth, from centum, hundred. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“France; they have a small coin there which they call a centime, and these go five to the cent or there-about.”
“A centime is the hundredth of a franc, and fifty centimes is ten cents.”
“If you paid taxes in either Italy or France, you were indeed "charged a centime" for your health care -- several, in fact, and likely more than you would have paid for comparable care in a free-market system.”
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“And in Italy, my husband walked in with some horrible strep thing, to a hospital, was fixed with free medicine and then sent to a specialist a few days later who diagnosed some allergy he had that no one here ever noticed... and he did not get charged a centime.”
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“By the regular shipyard charges it ought not to have been a centime over twenty-five hundred francs -”
“It's quite expensive, but worth every centime. 8 1/2 hours a day for 4 weeks plus lunch with the professors plus breakfast plus some optional evening and weekend events.”
“How she might be bribed — up to 10 euros (yes, it would be worth every centime to be freed of this weight) — to store the bag until my train leaves (at the end of the day ...).”
“Herein resides the best possible solution to the European impasse: an outcome that restores growth, avoids self-defeating austerity, and allows the best possible recovery for bondholders, who would collect more pennies on the dollar than they would if debtor countries were pushed into depression in a futile effort to pay every centime.”
“For that reason, the euro is now less than half a centime away from the 1.20 level the Swiss National Bank established as its beachhead against further strengthening of the franc.”
“When approached by a representative of the French government, the managing director of the Vemork plant handed his entire supply of by-product heavy water over to France at no cost, saying: "Our company will accept not one centime for the product you are taking, if it will aid France's victory.”
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currency
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lek, shilling, farthing, penny, dollar, cent, pound, peso, euro, won, yen, yuan and 106 more...
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Money
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lek, shekel, sheqalim, qindar, qindars, qindarka, qintar, qintars, dollar, dollars, penny, pennies and 143 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Algeria
Words about Algeria, etc.
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Coined
cent, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, farthing, shilling, halfpenny, twopence, threepence, sixpence, groat and 91 more...
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coining it
coin, banknote, money, cash, sterling, pound, nelsons, readies, fiver, baht, euro, penny and 40 more...
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