shilling
Other forms: shillings
A shilling is an old British coin, roughly equal to a nickel. Twenty shillings were equal to one pound.
The shilling isn't used any more in Great Britain, although other countries, like Uganda and Kenya, still use shillings. It was a small silver colored coin with a small value, similar to the nickel in the United States, that was used from the 1500's until Britain decimalised its currency in 1971 and stopped making shillings. The popular nickname for a shilling was a "bob."
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a former monetary unit in Great Britainsynonyms: British shilling, bobtype of:British monetary unitmonetary unit in Great Britain
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an English coin worth one twentieth of a poundtype of:coina flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
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the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 centssynonyms: Ugandan shillingtype of:Ugandan monetary unitmonetary unit in Uganda
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the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 centssynonyms: Tanzanian shillingtype of:Tanzanian monetary unitmonetary unit in Tanzania
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the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 centssynonyms: Somalian shillingtype of:Somalian monetary unitmonetary unit in Somalia
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the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 centssynonyms: Kenyan shillingtype of:Kenyan monetary unitmonetary unit in Kenya
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