Usually means: Historical British coin worth six pennies.
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  1. sixpence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sixpence: Merriam-Webster
  3. sixpence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sixpence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sixpence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sixpence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sixpence, sixpence: Wordnik
  8. sixpence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sixpence: Wiktionary
  10. sixpence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sixpence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sixpence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sixpence: Dictionary.com
  14. Sixpence (Australian), Sixpence (British coin), Sixpence (Irish coin), Sixpence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sixpence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sixpence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sixpence: Rhymezone
  18. Sixpence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sixpence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sixpence: FreeDictionary.org
  21. sixpence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sixpence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. sixpence: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (obsolete, British, uncountable) The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling.
▸ noun:  (historical) A former British coin worth sixpence, first minted in 1551.

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tanner, sixpennyworth, sixpenny, eightpence, ninepence, fourpence, sixteenpence, elevenpence, fivepence, tenpence, more...

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tuppence, ha'penny, farthing, penny, threepence, shilling, pound, more...

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mill sixpence, The Moon and Sixpence, Sixpence None the Richer, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Half a Sixpence, more...

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and, three, two, seven, one, price, four, worth, ten, crooked, nimble

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Similar:
tanner, sixpennyworth, sixpenny, eightpence, ninepence, fourpence, sixteenpence, elevenpence, fivepence, tenpence, more...

Types:
tuppence, ha'penny, farthing, penny, threepence, shilling, pound, more...

Phrases:
mill sixpence, The Moon and Sixpence, Sixpence None the Richer, Sing a Song of Sixpence, Half a Sixpence, Sixpence None the Richer discography, more...

Adjectives:
and, three, two, seven, one, price, four, worth, ten, crooked, nimble

Colors:
    silver,     gray,     pewter,     charcoal,     gunmetal, more...



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