ten cent
Old store type
Ten cent describes something worth or costing ten cents, often suggesting cheapness or low quality.
A ten-cent word is plain and unpretentious, the opposite of a dollar word.
The phrase appears in compound modifiers: ten-cent store, ten-cent cigar.
Historically, five-and-ten-cent stores (five-and-dimes) sold inexpensive household goods.
- dimeU.S. ten-cent coin
- five and dimeInexpensive variety shop
- nickelElement twenty-eight, or coin
- pennyOne-cent piece
- penny candyInexpensive single-piece confections
quarter · coin · copper · silver · jukebox · parking · parking meter · meter · change · pocket · piggybank · arcade · gumball · vending · vending machine · cheap · worthless · shiny
- Euro coinsone euro, eurozone, commemorative coin, proof coin, bimetallic
- German CurrencyDeutsche Mark, Deutschmark, euro, pfennig, Reichsmark
- European currencyeuro, pound, franc, mark, lira
quality/worth
ten centvaluable
Worth considerable money
first-rate · precious · premium · priceless · world-class
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