SHILLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shilling mean? 

• SHILLING (noun)
  The noun SHILLING has 6 senses:

1. the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents

2. the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents

3. the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents

4. the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents

5. a former monetary unit in Great Britain

6. an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound

  Familiarity information: SHILLING used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHILLING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

shilling; Ugandan shilling

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

Ugandan monetary unit (monetary unit in Uganda)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

shilling; Tanzanian shilling

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

Tanzanian monetary unit (monetary unit in Tanzania)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

shilling; Somalian shilling

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

Somalian monetary unit (monetary unit in Somalia)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Kenyan shilling; shilling

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

Kenyan monetary unit (monetary unit in Kenya)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A former monetary unit in Great Britain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

bob; British shilling; shilling

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

British monetary unit (monetary unit in Great Britain)

Meronyms (parts of "shilling"):

cent (a fractional monetary unit of several countries)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An English coin worth one twentieth of a pound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

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

 Context examples 

I said fifty shillings a week.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I asked for what sum he would take me there; he said thirty shillings; I answered I had but twenty; well, he would try to make it do.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Would they keep me long enough to spend seven shillings?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There was no name on his clothing, and nothing in his pockets save an apple, some string, a shilling map of London, and a photograph.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You think a man must be well-to-do if he smokes a seven-shilling pipe,” said I.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dutch Sam hurled a shilling down upon the table, and offered to fight the Pride of Westminster for it if he ventured to say that Mendoza had been fairly beaten.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

More and more frightened, she immediately promised them money, and taking out her purse, gave them a shilling, and begged them not to want more, or to use her ill.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I hired a horse and guide for five shillings, which I borrowed of the captain.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Davies was coming to town, and so we thought we'd join him in a post-chaise; and he behaved very genteelly, and paid ten or twelve shillings more than we did.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

I gave but five shillings a yard for it, and a true Indian muslin.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)