Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

The word "shilling" can be used as noun, verb and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Derived Terms

King's shilling Queen's shilling look as if one had lost a shilling and found sixpence poor man's shilling shilling mark shilling shocker shilling sign shillingless shillingsworth shillingworth take the shilling tenpence to the shilling the full shilling

Etymologically Related To

shill

Inflected/Variant Forms

shill

Context

historical new york and some other states us

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

British monetary unit Kenyan monetary unit Somalian monetary unit Tanzanian monetary unit Ugandan monetary unit coin

Type Of (IsA)

coin

Related Terms

schilling skilding skilling solidus

Related Terms

australia british british money coin commonwealth currency english english money fashioned ireland kenya like like pence malta money new zealand old old fashioned pence pound real schilling skilding skilling solidus somalia spanish tanzania uganda united kingdom united states

Synonym Network

bob british shilling deener kenyan shilling somalian shilling tanzanian shilling ugandan shilling

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