Sen

//sɛn// name, noun

name, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Self. East-Midlands, Yorkshire

    ""Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen.""

  2. 2
    A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen.
  3. 3
    A unit of Indonesian currency, worth one hundredth of a rupiah.
  4. 4
    A unit of Malaysian currency, worth one hundredth of a ringgit.
  5. 5
    A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters. uncountable
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  1. 6
    Initialism of special educational needs. Hong-Kong, UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
  2. 7
    Alternative form of Sen.. alt-of, alternative
  3. 8
    a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel wordnet
  4. 9
    A coin of this value.

    "Before leaving the Kyndam I had bought in exchange what I thought to be enough yens and sens to see me through."

  5. 10
    A coin of this value.
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of Zen. alt-of, alternative, obsolete

    "In [...] the 1850 streets of this city, there were 1050 of the Ten Dai’s Religion, 10070 of the sect Singon, 5402 of Fosso, 11016 of Sen..."

  2. 2
    A surname from Bengali.
  3. 3
    A surname from Khmer.

Synonyms

All synonyms
acidacidback breakerbattery-acidchandenomination

Example

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"I could not buy the 3 sen stamp to put on the letter, so it ended up staying for many days on top of the tokonoma."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 銭(せん) (sen).

Etymology 3

From Indonesian sen, from Dutch cent, from Old French cent (“hundred”). See further etymology at cent.

Etymology 4

From Malay sen, from English cent. See further etymology at cent.

Etymology 5

From Thai เส้น (sên).

Etymology 6

Abbreviation.

Etymology 7

From German Sen, a former transcription of Japanese 禅 (zen).

Etymology 8

Derived from Khmer សេន (seen) or Bengali সেন (Sen).

Related phrases

mi senthee sen

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