SIXPENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sixpence mean? 

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

1. a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIXPENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

sixpence; tanner

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

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

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

 Context examples 

Well, I should put the original cost of the pipe at seven and sixpence.

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

I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Why in the world should you spend your money, worry your family, and turn the house upside down for a parcel of girls who don't care a sixpence for you?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

They ran behind him some little way, offering him first fourpence and then sixpence a day, but he only smiled and shook his head, until at last they fell away from him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he rolled over on his side with a heavy, sobbing sigh, saying: A sixpence is a tanner, and a shilling a bob; but what a pony is I don’t know.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If he were ever able to learn what Wickham's debts have been, said Elizabeth, and how much is settled on his side on our sister, we shall exactly know what Mr. Gardiner has done for them, because Wickham has not sixpence of his own.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Poverty certainly has not contracted her mind: I really believe, if she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it; and nobody is afraid of her: that is a great charm.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I believe you are right, my love; it will be better that there should be no annuity in the case; whatever I may give them occasionally will be of far greater assistance than a yearly allowance, because they would only enlarge their style of living if they felt sure of a larger income, and would not be sixpence the richer for it at the end of the year.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Things seem so cheap, nice ribbons only sixpence a yard.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was taken to Bow Street, as well as I remember, on the completion of his fifteenth journey; when four-and-sixpence, and a second-hand fife which he couldn't play, were found upon his person.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)