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Definition: Sixpence |
SixpenceNoun1. A small British coin worth six pennies; not minted since 1970. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sixpence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Synonym: SixpenceSynonym: tanner (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sixpence |
| English words defined with "sixpence": Mill-sixpence ♦ Sixpences ♦ Testern, Teston, Testone. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sixpence": CROOK, Crooked Sixpence ♦ HALF A HOG ♦ Jonathan's ♦ Macaronic Verse ♦ SICE, Sing a Song o' Sixpence, SYEBUCK ♦ TIZZY ♦ Wayland Smith's Cave. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Half a Sixpence (1967) The Moon and Sixpence (1959) A Song of Sixpence (1917) | |
Song Titles | Breath Your Name (performing artist: Sixpence None The Richer) Kiss Me (performing artist: Sixpence None The Richer) There She Goes (performing artist: Sixpence None The Richer) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | No; no; not a sixpence. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Told her so and asked for sixpence. |
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| "Sixpence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sixpence" is used about 282 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 282 | 17,376 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sixpence": sixpence the pound. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "sixpence": sixpence-a-week. | |
Ending with "sixpence": half-a-sixpence, Mill-sixpence. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sixpence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sixpencestück. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νόμισμα εξ πέννων. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | moneta da sei penny (tanner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shey pingyn (tester). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ixpencesay şase pence funtul (sixpence the pound). (various references) шестипенсовик. (various references) seis peniques. (various references) sexpence. (various references) เหรียญหกเพนนีของอังกฤษ. (various references) шестипенсовик (bender, sixpenny, tanner). (various references) sáu xu. (various references) chwecheiniog, chwech (six). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "sixpence": sixpences. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sixpence" (pronounced 'Six"pence'): fourpence, Ninepence, threepence, Twelvepence, twopence. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-s-x" | |
-2 letters: excise, exines, nieces, pieces, specie, spence. | |
-3 letters: cense, cepes, cines, epics, execs, exine, neeps, niece, nixes, peens, peins, peise, pence, penes, penis, piece, pines, pixes, scene, seine, sepic, since, snipe, spice, spine, xenic. | |
-4 letters: cees, cepe, ceps, cine, epic, exec, exes, ices, neep, nice, nips, nixe, pecs, peen, pees, pein, pens, pice, pics. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-n-p-s-x" | |
+1 letter: sixpences. | |
+2 letters: cineplexes, exceptions, excipients. | |
+3 letters: cephalexins, excerptions, expediences, experiences. | |
+4 letters: chickenpoxes, expectancies, expectations, expediencies, explicitness, preexistence. | |
+5 letters: inexpediences, inexperiences, preexistences, reexperiences. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 69 78 70 65 6E 63 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .. -..- .--. . -. -.-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101001 01111000 01110000 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S i x p e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0069 0078 0070 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5375908271806971 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | "ερμανός, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, neamţ, немецкий, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, німкеня, німецький, німець, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister, Almaenwr |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, greacã, греческий, грек, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm, Groegwr |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | italienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | manx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, менський, менський діалект |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, rumeno, Roomainagh, român, румынский, румын, rumano, rumänsk, румунський, румунка, румунська мова, румун |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, шведська мова, шведський, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Та"ць, Тайська Мова, Тайський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, ucrainean, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець, người U-kren tiếng U-kren |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, вьетнамский, vietnames, в'"тнамець, в'"тнамський, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
Welsh | geirlyfr, geiriadur, diffiniad, darnodiad, trosiad | walisisch, ουάλλοσ, ουαλλικόσ, δεν πληρώνω τα οφειλόμενα, gallese, Bretnagh, limba velşã, velş, din ţara galilor, уэльский, galés, walesisk, у"льський, не віддати гроші, валлійська мова, валлійський, валлійці, Cymreig |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, englezesc, английский, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, англійський, англійці, англійська мова, Saesneg |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Familiar 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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