twopence

Noun

Meaning

A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bob guinea crown farthing curio bagatelle bit cent button bean feather fig damn farce pence
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Antonyms

blizzard large quantity high number significant amount bags of abundance of
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Hypernyms

coin

Related terms

sixpence fourpence threepence fivepence eightpence tenpence

Phrases with the word

herb twopence

Examples

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence. Sydney Smith

A penny saved is twopence dear A pin a day 's a groat a year. Benjamin Franklin

In 2005 she appeared at the Liverpool Empire Theatre in the musical play Twopence to Cross the Mersey. Source: Internet

The White Queen offers to hire Alice as her lady's maid and to pay her "Twopence a week, and jam every other day." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

twoonie twoosh twopartite twopenny twopenny rope Twopenny Tube