Noun: cent
| Singular | cent |
| Plural | cents; cent |
Sample Sentences
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It's true. 1.7 cents to make 1 cent. That really makes the phrase “you have to spend money to make money” ring painfully true. [2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:]
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He blew every last cent.
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Every cent aside from his own expenses for the barest kind of living went to his down-and-out buddies. [1990, Lou Sullivan, From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, →ISBN, page 10:]
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And broght with hem many stout cent / Of green lordynges. [c. 1450, Octouian Imperator (Octavian), lines 1463-4]
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The demon makes his full descent / In one abundant shower of cent per cent. [1733, Alexander Pope, Moral Essays, Epistle III to Allen, Lord Bathurst, 372]
Nouns inflected like cent
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥
3. Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm
4. Proto-Italic *kəntom
5. Latin centum
6. Old French centbor.
7. Middle English cent
8. English cent
9. From Middle English cent, from Old French cent, from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm. See: Middle English Nouns '
cent', Latin Nouns '
centum'.
Verbs referencing "cent"
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Cent.