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sen

/sɛn/

sen noun: self.

Noun (1)

sen

  1. (East-Midlands, Yorkshire) Self.
    • "Hear all, see all, say nowt. Eyt all, sup all, pay nowt. An if ivver tha does owt fer nowt, mek sure tha does it fer thi sen."

Noun (2)

sen (plural sens or sen)

  1. A unit of Japanese currency, worth one hundredth of a yen.
  2. A coin of this value.
    • Before leaving the Kyndam I had bought in exchange what I thought to be enough yens and sens to see me through.2013, Charles F. C. Ladd, Jr., Around the World at Seventeen, page 70

Noun (3)

sen (plural sens or sen)

  1. A unit of Indonesian currency, worth one hundredth of a rupiah.

Noun (4)

sen (plural sens or sen)

  1. A unit of Malaysian currency, worth one hundredth of a ringgit.
  2. A coin of this value.

Noun (5)

sen (uncountable)

  1. A unit of length equal 20 wa, 40 meters.

Noun (6) capitalized: Sen

Sen

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of Sen..
  2. (abbreviation, rhythmic gymnastics) Abbreviation of seniors.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Sen

Sen

  1. (alternative, obsolete) Alternative spelling of Zen.
    • In [...] the 1850 streets of this city, there were 1050 of the Ten Dai’s Religion, 10070 of the sect Singon, 5402 of Fosso, 11016 of Sen...1727, Engelbert Kaempfer’s, translated by John Gaspar Scheuchzer, History of Japan, volume I, page 199

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Sen

Sen

  1. A surname from Bengali.
  2. A surname from Hindi.
  3. A surname from Khmer.

Noun (7) capitalized: SEN

SEN (uncountable)

  1. (Hong-Kong, UK, abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of special educational needs.

sen meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

sen in Hindi

सेन, सेन ने

sen in Tamil

சென்

sen in Marathi

सेन

sen in Urdu

سین
More languagesFewer languages
sen in Bengali
সেন
sen in Telugu
సేన్, సెన్
sen in Malayalam
സെൻ
sen in Kannada
ಸೇನ್, ಸೆನ್
sen in Punjabi
ਸੇਨ
sen in Gujarati
સેન
sen in Odia
ସେନ୍, ସେନ
sen in Nepali
सेन

Forms of sen

pluralsens
pluralsen

Plural of sen: sens or sen

Origin of sen

From a syncopation of Middle English selven, selfen, variants of selfe, self. More at self.

Borrowed from Japanese 銭(せん) (sen).

From Indonesian sen, from Dutch cent, from Old French cent (“hundred”). See further etymology at cent.

Words formed from sen

Phrases with sen

Words that rhyme with sen

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Questions about sen

What does sen mean?
Sen means self.
What is sen in Hindi?
Sen in Hindi is सेन, सेन ने. See Sen meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is sen?
Sen can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce sen?
Sen is pronounced /sɛn/.
What is the plural of sen?
The plural of sen is sens.

Words near sen in the dictionary

  1. semé
  2. semé-de-lis
  3. semé-de-lys
  4. semée
  5. seméed
  6. sen
  7. sen high
  8. Sen-Sen
  9. sen.
  10. SENA
  11. senachie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sen (page history and authors); Sen (page history and authors); SEN (page history and authors); sen (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); sen (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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