FOURPENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fourpence mean? 

• FOURPENCE (noun)
  The noun FOURPENCE has 1 sense:

1. a former English silver coin worth four pennies

  Familiarity information: FOURPENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FOURPENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former English silver coin worth four pennies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

fourpence; groat

Hypernyms ("fourpence" is a kind of...):

coin (a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money)

 Context examples 

There are in it twenty-three marks, one noble, three shillings and fourpence, which is a great treasure for one man to carry.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, go-roo! (it is really impossible to express how he twisted this ejaculation out of himself, as he peeped round the door-post at me, showing nothing but his crafty old head); will you go for fourpence?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They ran behind him some little way, offering him first fourpence and then sixpence a day, but he only smiled and shook his head, until at last they fell away from him.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)