penny

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈpɛ.ni/

Noun

historical

(historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.

Japanese Meaning

（歴史的）イギリスおよびアイルランドで、小銭として使用され、10進法導入前には1ポンドまたはアイリッシュポンドの240分の1の価値を持つ銅貨またはその通貨単位。

What is this buttons?

He found an old copper penny buried in the field, a relic from before decimalisation.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

彼は畑で、旧十進化以前のイギリスの銅貨（1ポンドの240分の1に相当、略記：d）を見つけた。

Details

Sense（1）

(historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a unit of currency worth ¹⁄₂₄₀ of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation, or a copper coin worth this amount. Abbreviation: d.

Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

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