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  1. 1(英國舊制)先令；(現)部分東非國家的貨幣單位

    A shilling was an old British coin, used before the UK changed its money system in 1971 — twenty shillings made one pound. You won't see one in a shop today, but the word still shows up in older books, films, and expressions, almost always as a way to talk about a small amount of money from the past ('he didn't have a shilling to his name'). Some other countries, like Kenya and Tanzania, still use 'shilling' as the name of their real, current currency.

From the word’s history

From Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz.

來自古英文 sċilling，自古就是一種錢幣的名稱。

Wiktionary

組成From the Old English word 'scilling', a very old name for a coin.

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Shillingname

  • 1

    A surname.

shillingnoun詞源 1/ˈʃɪlɪŋ/

  • 1

    historicalA coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries worth twelve old pence, or one twentieth of a pound sterling.

    • A great bargain also had been[…]the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire. In fact, that arm-chair had been an extravagance of Mrs. Bunting. She had wanted her husband to be comfortable after the day's work was done, and she had paid thirty-seven shillings for the chair.
  • 2

    The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda.

  • 3

    historicalA currency in the United States, differing in value between states.

  • 4

    historicalThe Spanish real, formerly having the value of one eighth of a dollar.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。