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Definition of Twopence
1. Noun. A former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies.
Definition of Twopence
1. n. A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.
Definition of Twopence
1. Noun. (British) A bronze British coin worth two pennies ¹
2. Noun. (British) A cost or value of two pennies ¹
3. Noun. (British) (''by extension'') A small amount or value ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twopence
1. a British coin worth two pennies [n -S]
Medical Definition of Twopence
1. A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twopence
Literary usage of Twopence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"Picking up a handkerchief, one penny to boys, twopence to men. Shutting a cab-door,
to the waterman one penny—where does your honor want to got— twopence. ..."
2. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
""And is it not pretty sport," wrote Captain John Smith, who was on this coast as
early as 1614, " to pull up twopence, sixpence, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"The flowers of benjamin cost about twopence. The best place for rack is Vauxhall ;
but I suspect they run this hum on you. At Tom's, in Cornhill, ..."
4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1887)
"I PRICE twopence. Eg tke Author of "Dame Durden," "My Lord Conceit," " Darby and
Jonn," ... twopence."
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