Halfpenny Synonyms

hāpə-nē, hāpnē
An English coin worth half a penny
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ha'penny

Words Related to Halfpenny

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. farthing
  2. twopence
  3. half-penny
  4. sixpence
  5. shilling
  6. half-crown
  7. fourpence

Halfpenny Sentence Examples

  • Before silver coinage was introduced (269 B.C.) the value of the as was about 6d., in the time of Cicero less than a halfpenny.

  • When published for the first time, the eight page newspaper cost only halfpenny.

  • Our coin shows a halfpenny which were only issued with the bare head design.

  • In 1908 an Income Tax and a Land Tax Act was passed; the land tax being a halfpenny in the £ " on the aggregate unimproved value " - it brought in £30,000 in 1908-1909.

  • This seminary was, however, closed in about six months, and on the 2nd of March 1736/7 both Johnson and Garrick left Lichfield for London - Johnson, as he afterwards said, " with twopence halfpenny in his pocket," and Garrick " with three-halfpence in his."

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