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stiver

/ˈstaɪvə/

stiver noun: a small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.

Noun

stiver (plural stivers)

  1. (historical) A small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
  2. Anything of small value.
    • ’Tis not worth a single stiver, said the bandy-leg'd drummer.1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 4, Penguin, published 2003, page 223
    • [A]ll hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays […] And though the 275th lay was what they call a rather long lay, yet it was better than nothing; and if we had a lucky voyage, might pretty nearly pay for the clothing I would wear out on it, not to speak of my...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 16”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

Proper noun capitalized: Stiver

Stiver (plural Stivers)

  1. A surname.

stiver meaning in Tamil and Bengali

stiver in Tamil

டச்சுக்காசு

stiver in Bengali

সামান্য মূল্যের যেকোনো কিছু

Forms of stiver

Noun
pluralstivers
Proper noun
pluralStivers

Origin of stiver

From Dutch stuiver, cognate with Middle Low German stüver.

Questions about stiver

What does stiver mean?
Stiver means a small Dutch coin worth one twentieth of a guilder.
What is stiver in Tamil?
Stiver in Tamil is டச்சுக்காசு. See Stiver meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is stiver?
Stiver can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce stiver?
Stiver is pronounced /ˈstaɪvə/.
What is the plural of stiver?
The plural of stiver is stivers.

Words near stiver in the dictionary

  1. Stittville
  2. Stitzel
  3. Stitzels
  4. stive
  5. stived
  6. stiver
  7. stivers
  8. Stiverson
  9. Stiversons
  10. stives
  11. stiving

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stiver (page history and authors); Stiver (page history and authors); stiver (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stiver (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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