What is another word for five cents?

Pronunciation: [fˈa͡ɪv sˈɛnts] (IPA)

Five cents, also referred to as a nickel, is the smallest unit of currency in the United States. Other synonyms for five cents include a five-penny piece, a silver sliver, or simply a five. In Australia, five cents is known as a warry. The Canadian equivalent of a nickel is also five cents, while in the UK, a five-penny piece is the equivalent. Other phrases that are used to describe five cents include pocket change, a fraction of a dollar, or half of a dime. Regardless of the terminology used, five cents remains a crucial denomination in many countries' economies.

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What are the hypernyms for Five cents?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Five cents

  • I took a job at the pool in order to earn the five cents a day it cost to swim. I counted wet towels. As a bonus, I was allowed to swim during lunchtime.
    Esther Williams
  • This is an age of scientific wonders. You miss somebody so you pick up the phone to say hello. Three minutes for sixty-five cents. Nobody goes broke.
    Mordecai Richler
  • Cars used to have such dashing shapes, like airplanes, back when gas was cheap, twenty-five cents a gallon.
    John Updike
  • The wind was bad today. Hugh’s filtermask was used up, all clogged, and he didn’t have the seventy-five cents for another from a roadside dispenser, and anyway the quality of those things was lousy, didn’t even last the hour claimed for them. Lousy . . . Absently he scratched his crotch. He’d more or less got used to lice by now, of course; there just didn’t seem to be any way of avoiding them. For every evil under the sun there is a remedy or there’s none. If there is one try and find it, if there isn’t never mind it. There must be a hell of a lot of evils in the world nowadays that there aren’t any remedies for. Anyway: what sun? He hadn’t seen the sun in fucking weeks.
    John Brunner

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