Also spelled shillin’s
Minimal pairs
noun
Freq #17570
Meanings
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1
noun
an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
The fare cost two shillings.
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2
noun
a former monetary unit in Great Britain
The fare cost two shillings.
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Etymology
From Middle English schilling, shilling, from Old English sċilling, from Proto-Germanic *skillingaz, equivalent to skill + -ing. Doublet of scalding and schilling.
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