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senti

senti

9.9
A small coin used in some African countries equal to one hundredth of the main currency
  • noun
  • South African
translation icon : senti

Examples

  • Senti...

    A Real Pain (2024)

  • But Mike considered his friends "senti meets," however well-intentioned, to be mere adulation.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • Or you're getting senti-fucking-mental now this girl isn't just theoretical.

    The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)

  • I mean, no senti had being need live in its own filth on the way to being barbarically slaughtered - just so that we can dose... - Uh, hello?... ...ourselves in growth hormones.

    Bodied (2018)

  • In Kenya, 100 senti is equal to one shilling, making it important when calculating prices.

  • The price of the bread was 50 senti, so I paid with a 10-shilling note.

  • When I traveled to Tanzania, I exchanged my dollars for the local currency, which included many senti coins.

Synonyms

sente
vssenti
9.9

A money unit in Lesotho worth one hundredth of a loti

is a regional name used across several African countries rather than one nation
butut
vssenti
9.9

A small coin worth one hundredth of a Gambian dalasi

is a regional name used across several African countries rather than one nation
pesewa
vssenti
9.9

A small unit of money in Ghana equal to one hundredth of a cedi

is a regional name used across several African countries rather than one nation
subunit
vssenti
5.5

A small money unit that is a fixed part of the main currency, like a cent

is the African regional name for that fractional monetary unit
penni
vssenti
  • Archaic
9.9

A former small Finnish coin worth one hundredth of the old markka

is used in some African countries rather than in non-African ones

Surface Forms

senti singular
sentis plural

Etymology

Senti as a money word comes from the European word cent, which means 'one hundredth'. So a senti is a small coin worth one hundredth of the main unit, which is why one hundred senti make one shilling or a similar currency.