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cent
- /sɛnt/
Sounds like scent, sent · Rhymes with -ɛnt
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Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥
Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm
Proto-Italic *kəntom
Latin centum
Old French centbor.
Middle English cent
English cent
From Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.
noun cents · cent · cent.
- A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢. It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true.
- A small sum of money. He blew every last cent.
- A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
- A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
- A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
- A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
- Abbreviation of century.century
- Abbreviation of Latincentum (“one hundred”).Latincentum And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges.
- Abbreviation of centigrade.centigrade
- Abbreviation of center.center
