NINEPENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ninepence mean? 

• NINEPENCE (noun)
  The noun NINEPENCE has 1 sense:

1. a coin worth nine pennies

  Familiarity information: NINEPENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NINEPENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coin worth nine pennies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("ninepence" is a kind of...):

coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)

 Context examples 

I hate to borrow as much as Mother does, and I knew Aunt March would croak, she always does, if you ask for a ninepence.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

“I should rob my family,” he said, “if I was to offer ninepence for it.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Wheat was at a hundred and ten shillings a quarter, and the quartern loaf at one and ninepence.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My circumstances being so very pressing, however, I said I would take ninepence for it, if he pleased.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Commission to the extent of two and ninepence in a fortnight cannot, however limited our ideas, be considered remunerative.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mr. Dolloby, not without some grumbling, gave ninepence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepence would be mere brutality and hardness of heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Beyond a general impression of the distance before me, and of the young man with the donkey-cart having used me cruelly, I think I had no very urgent sense of my difficulties when I once again set off with my ninepence in my pocket.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)