PENNY Synonyms

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

• make up

• form by stamping, punching, or printing

• a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor

• a copper penny

• uncomplimentary terms for a policeman

• a reddish-brown color resembling the color of polished copper

• any of various small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae having coppery wings

• coat with a layer of copper

• the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender

• wealth reckoned in terms of money

• the official currency issued by a government or national bank

• the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents

• the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents

• the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents

• the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents

• a former monetary unit in Great Britain

• an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound

• a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo

• a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit

• a coin used in Great Britain since 1971 worth one hundredth of a pound