noun ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A former subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the franc. historical
2. 2
   a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit wordnet
3. 3
   A coin having face value of one centime.
4. 4
   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 wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

centcolondollarfrancpennypenny

Etymology

Borrowed from French centime. By surface analysis, cent- + -ime. Doublet of centim, centimo, and santim.

Related phrases

Algerian centimeHaitian centime

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