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pen·ny
 penny
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- pronunciation:
- pe
ni
- features:
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| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
pence, pennies |
| definition 1: |
A penny is a coin of the United States or Canada that is equal to one cent. One hundred pennies is equal to one dollar in American or Canadian money.
My dad puts all his pennies in a big jar on his desk.
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| definition 2: |
A penny is the smaller unit of money in the United Kingdom. The larger unit of money is called the pound. 100 pennies have the value of one 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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