English Explanatory Dictionary

cent

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
  2. A small sum of money.
  3. A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
  4. A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
  5. A hundredth of a semitone or half step.
  6. A unit of reactivity equal to one hundredth of a dollar.
  7. Abbreviation of century.
  8. Abbreviation of Latincentum (“one hundred”).
  9. Abbreviation of centigrade.
  10. Abbreviation of center.

Pronunciation

sĕnt /sɛnt/ en-us-cent.ogg

Word forms

cent cents cent.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t 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.

Synonyms

Eurocent penny dollarcent

Related words

centennial centi- centipede centurion century dollar euro per cent two cents

Derived words

bitcent centage cent percent dollar-and-cent Fugio cent half cent red cent ten-cent ten-cent store ten-cent tour ten-cent word twenty-five cent word

Translations

Albanian: cent Aleut: siintax̂ Arabic: سِنْت Arabic: سَنْت Armenian: ցենտ Asturian: centavu Asturian: céntimu Azerbaijani: sent West Coast Bajau: sin Belarusian: цэнт Bengali: সেন্ট Bulgarian: цент Burmese: ဆင့် Catalan: centau Catalan: cèntim Chinese Cantonese: 仙 Chinese Cantonese: 分 Chinese Cantonese: 厘 Hakka Chinese: 分 Chinese: 分 Chinese: 針 /针 Chinese Mandarin: 分 Czech: cent Danish: cent Dutch: cent Esperanto: cendo Estonian: sent Faroese: sent Fijian: sede Finnish: sentti French: cent French: centime French: sou Galician: céntimo Georgian: ცენტი German: Cent Greek: σεντ Hebrew: סֶנְט Hindi: सेंट Hungarian: penny Hungarian: cent Indonesian: sen Irish: ceint Italian: centesimo Japanese: セント Japanese: 仙 Kazakh: цент Khmer: សេន Korean: 센트 Korean: 전 Kyrgyz: цент
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