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penny

pen·ny

penny

 
pronunciation:
pe ni
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part of speech: noun
inflections: pence, pennies
definition 1: a coin of the United States and Canada equal to one cent.
 
definition 2: The smaller unit of money in the United Kingdom. One penny is equal in value to 1/100 of a pound.
The plural form of "penny" is "pennies" if you're talking about a number of coins, but the plural form is "pence" if you're talking about the price of something--like if you say that something costs one pound and thirty pence.
 
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