Definitions for sixpence

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sixpence six·pence

Spelling: [siks-puh ns]

IPA: /ˈsɪks pəns/

Sixpence is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in sixpence (ceeinpsx).

Definitions for sixpence

noun

1. (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of six pennies.
2. (used with a singular verb) a cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom, the half of a shilling, formerly equal to six pennies: equal to two and one-half new pence after decimalization in 1971.

Origin of sixpence

First recorded in 1350-1400, sixpence is from the Middle English word sexe pans. See six, pence

Examples for sixpence

I ought to add, that the sixpence got clear, the dog swimming away with it.

At length, when there was silence, he begged to be permitted to look at the sixpence.

I can't tell you what I don't owe in Helstonleigh, and I've not a sixpence to pay it with.

They just turn on a sixpence and go and look for something else.

But supposing the cost were not sixpence a week, not fivepence?

You show me the exact spot, and I'll give you sixpence for smoke.

Can he do an hour's work in a minute, and live on a sixpence a week?

I am to have ten shillings and sixpence—half a guinea a week!

The doctor's fee is four and sixpence, and you need not consult him often.

Adams gave a caper, and cry'd out, "It would do; for that he had sixpence himself."