Halfpenny Definition

hāpə-nē, hāpnē
halfpence, halfpennies
noun
halfpennies
A former British coin equal to half a penny.
Webster's New World
A British coin worth one half of an old penny, no longer in circulation.
American Heritage
The sum of one half of a penny.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
  • ha'penny
adjective
Worth a halfpenny, or very little; trifling.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Halfpenny

Noun

Singular:
halfpenny
Plural:
halfpence, halfpennies

Origin of Halfpenny

  • From the Middle English halpenī, either from the late-Old English hal-penige or from half +‎ penī; equivalent to half +‎ penny and continually reinforced by that surface analysis.

    From Wiktionary

Halfpenny Sentence Examples

  • Before silver coinage was introduced (269 B.C.) the value of the as was about 6d., in the time of Cicero less than a halfpenny.

  • When published for the first time, the eight page newspaper cost only halfpenny.

  • Our coin shows a halfpenny which were only issued with the bare head design.

  • In 1908 an Income Tax and a Land Tax Act was passed; the land tax being a halfpenny in the £ " on the aggregate unimproved value " - it brought in £30,000 in 1908-1909.

  • This seminary was, however, closed in about six months, and on the 2nd of March 1736/7 both Johnson and Garrick left Lichfield for London - Johnson, as he afterwards said, " with twopence halfpenny in his pocket," and Garrick " with three-halfpence in his."

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