centime
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- noun
:
centavo
- Even in this pricey place, the clever traveler can track down activities, services, and just plain pleasures that don't cost a single centime.
- francs and centimes
Examples
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I don't suppose you could lend me 20 centimes, could you?
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He was twenty-one, had fifty-four francs, ten centimes in his pocket, and he was in Paris.
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Plus ten centimes a line, any articles you manage to place.
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"Is there a twenty-centime tour?"
Fiction book (1999) -
-Thirty centimes, it cost me.
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And he didn't eat much - 3 francs, 40 centimes.
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My evenings were spent sewing buttons on gloves to earn a few extra centimes.
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He was twenty-one, had fifty-four francs, ten centimes in his pocket, and he was in Paris.
Fiction book (1993) -
I don't suppose you could lend me 20 centimes, could you?
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Plus ten centimes a line, any articles you manage to place.
Synonyms
950
1.0
A small coin worth one hundredth of a dollar
513
1.0
A small coin worth one of 100 parts of a pound or dollar
1
7.9
A small coin worth one hundredth of a peso or other money
A unit of money in Algeria equal to one hundredth of a dinar
A small money unit or coin in Haiti equal to one hundredth of a gourde
A small coin equal to one hundredth of a country's currency, used in countries like Panama and Uruguay
A former Lithuanian coin equal to one hundredth of a litas
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Centime comes from French parts: cent meaning 'hundred' and the ending -ime meaning 'a small part', and the same cent appears in English words like century and percent. So a centime is literally 'one hundredth' of the main money, which is why it equals 1/100 of a franc.