Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the primary unit in Costa Rica, Venezuela and various other countries.
- noun A former unit of Spanish currency that was equal to 1/100 of a peseta.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A current subsidiary coin of Costa Rica, the hundredth part of a colon, equal to forty-six hundredths of a United States cent. Silver pieces of 5, 10, 25, and 50 centimes are coined.
- noun A current subsidiary coin of Venezuela, the hundredth part of a bolivar, equal to nineteen hundredths of a United States cent.
- noun A subsidiary coin of the Dominican Republic, the hundredth part of a franco, or franc, equal to seventeen hundredths of a United States cent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cent , i.e. 1/100, of certain (mainly historic) Iberian and Latin American currencies, and presently of the Euro (coinage version in Spanish), as a coin or theoretic value
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a fractional monetary unit of Venezuela and Costa Rica and Equatorial Guinea and Paraguay and Spain
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I paid my bill there, which was imagined with scrupulous fullness to the last possible centimo, and so I may disinterestedly declare that the Eitz is the only hotel in Madrid where you get the worth of your money, even when the money seems more but scarcely is so.
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'Even before dying, my father sensed that I was going to spend his money on all the things he most detested in life, down to the last centimo.'
The Shadow of the Wind Zafon, Carlos Ruiz 2001
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Priest and peasant, the great lady and the gentleman who sells one a glass of water for a centimo, brush past each other.
The Grey Lady Henry Seton Merriman 1882
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I paid my bill there, which was imagined with scrupulous fullness to the last possible _centimo, _ and so I may disinterestedly declare that the Eitz is the only hotel in Madrid where you get the worth of your money, even when the money seems more but scarcely is so.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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The bond's price rose 0.14 centimo to 110.71 centimos per sol.
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The bond's price fell 0.36 centimo to 108.13 centimos per sol.
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Well one of the vendors keeps on pestering me to buy his 2 euro bracelets that cost like one centimo to make while im coughing my life away.
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Well one of the vendors keeps on pestering me to buy his 2 euro bracelets that cost like one centimo to make while im coughing my life away.
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"small dog," as the Spanish call a ten and a five centimo piece.
Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878
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"He would see me in the Kasbah, chained by the leg and dying for a centimo measure of water.
The Black Edgar Wallace 1903
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