cent
A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the main unit of currency in many countries. Symbol: ¢.
Other meanings
A subunit of currency equal to one-hundredth of the euro.
A coin having face value of one cent (in either of the above senses).
Related words
- bitcent
- centage
- cent percent
- dollar-and-cent
- Fugio cent
- half cent
- red cent
- ten-cent store
- ten-cent tour
- ten-cent word
- twenty-five cent word
- ten-cent
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "centum".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “cent” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.