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# ninepence

«ninepence» in Mova's school dictionary: **An old British coin worth nine pence, used before our…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (ninepences)

### meaning for a pupil

An old British coin worth nine pence, used before our money was changed to decimal coins; an amount of money, not a count of coins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepence/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories, prices and wages are paid in coins such as ninepence; the phrase «at ninepence a head» means nine pence for each person.

### examples

- The teas cost ninepence each. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepence/#x1)
- She paid a ninepence for the loaf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepence/#x2)
- Nine pence is also written as ninepence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepence/#x3)

### note

it is an amount of money: a count of ninepence means nine pence added together for each person (for example, 4 children at ninepence each make 36 pence).

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ninepence» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/ninepence/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.