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pen·ny
 penny
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- pronunciation:
- pe
ni
- features:
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noun |
| inflections: |
pence, pennies |
| definition 1: |
a coin of the United States and Canada equal to one cent.
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| 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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