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shilling mark

Meaning of "shilling mark" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SHILLING MARK

So named because it was used to separate shillings from pence when writing amounts less than one pound before the introduction of decimal currency in Britain. For example, three shillings and eleven pence was written 3/11.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SHILLING MARK

shilling mark


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHILLING MARK

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shilling mark is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHILLING MARK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Slash (punctuation)

The slash is a sign used as a punctuation mark and for various other purposes. It is often called a forward slash, a retronym used to distinguish it from the backslash. It has many other names.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHILLING MARK

shiksa · shikse · shikseh · shilingi · shill · shill bidding · shillaber · shillala · shillelagh · shilling · shillingless · shillingsworth · Shillong · shilly-shallier · shilly-shallies · shilly-shallying · shillyshally · Shiloh · shilpit · shily

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHILLING MARK

black mark · bookmark · check mark · class mark · easy mark · exclamation mark · hash mark · high-water mark · identification mark · low-water mark · minute mark · on your mark · order mark · pass mark · punctuation mark · question mark · quotation mark · reference mark · skid mark · stretch mark · the mark

Synonyms and antonyms of shilling mark in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «shilling mark» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF SHILLING MARK

Find out the translation of shilling mark to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of shilling mark from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shilling mark» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

先令大关
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

marca chelín
570 millions of speakers
en

English

shilling mark
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

शिलिंग निशान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

علامة الشلن
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

шиллинг знак
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

marca shilling
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

শিলিং মার্ক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

shilling marque
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Mark shilling
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Schilling Marke
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

シリング記号
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

실링 마크
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Tandha shilling
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đánh dấu shilling
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

Shilling குறி
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

शिलिंग चिन्ह
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

Şilin mark
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

mark scellino
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

znak szyling
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

шилінг знак
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

marca șiling
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σήμα σελίνι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sjieling merk
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

shilling märke
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shilling mark
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shilling mark

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHILLING MARK»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHILLING MARK»

Discover the use of shilling mark in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shilling mark and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Silver Shilling
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Mark Warner, 2002
2
The Evolution of the Money Standard in Medieval Frisia: A ...
But there was a disadvantage: it did not fit very well into the new penny- shilling- mark system of account: a multiple unit of 7 or 7 -J- shillings represented by braspenningen, or a multiple unit of 8-5- shillings represented by white stuvers, would ...
Dirk Jan Henstra, 2000
3
The Basics of English Usage
Wynford Hicks. Slash, bar, diagonal, oblique, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule Slash, bar, diagonal, oblique, shilling mark, solidus, stroke, virgule The slash (/), pedantically forward slash, also bar, diagonal, oblique, shilling mark, solidus, ...
Wynford Hicks, 2009
4
Color: Universal Language and Dictionary of Names
The Munsell value of a color is the same as that of the gray sample in the same row of the constant-hue charts, and is recorded in front of a shilling mark, thus 6 value is written 6/. Munsell chroma is the degree of difference of a color from a gray ...
Kenneth Low Kelly, Deane Brewster Judd, 1976
5
The Encyclopedia of Money
The left half bore a 1-shilling mark and the right half bore a 2-shilling mark, reflecting the cost of attending movies on the islands. The Bank of England has bisected notes as a security measure. After 1948, the new state of Israel sent bisected ...
Larry Allen, 2009
6
Fear In The Forest
Apart from a few rare gold coins, the only money in circulation was the silver penny, which was often cut into segments for use as lower denominations. The shilling, mark and pound were not coins, but nominal values, the shilling being twelve ...
Bernard Knight, 2003
7
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Now, Robby Dawson, with his cousin Jean, Of magic art the wonted feats have seen. The shilling, mark'd, at Conjuror's command, Become a guinea, in the open 'd hand. ' Again, the guinea,—What amazing skill !— Commute its form, and ...
‎1821
8
American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive, ...
Alexander Montgomery , Daniel Ogden, - Daniel Ogden, - John Gibson, - Hezekiah Harman, Nicholas Rob, Isaac J ohnson, Isaac Fife, Patrick Foley, Elisha Flowers, Thomas Cummins, Palser Shilling, - Mark Oiler, - Richard Dun , John Grifiing, ...
United States. Congress, 1834
9
Philosophy of Money
Thus one finds, even at the time ofthe Magna Carta, the statement that the knight, baron and earl relate to each other as shilling, mark and pound, since these are the proportions of their escheat – a concep- tion that is as typical as its basis is ...
Georg Simmel, David Frisby, 2011
10
Edinburgh
... shilling mark (/-), the stronger, or "heavier", the beer. Both 60/-, often described as a "pale ale", and skull-splitting 907- are rarely seen nowadays; 701- and 80/- are by far the most commonly found. The main brands to look out for are those of  ...
Rough Guides, Donald Reid, 2002
REFERENCE
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