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trime

trime noun: a silver coin worth three cents, minted in the US from 1851 to 1873.

Noun

trime (plural trimes)

  1. A silver coin worth three cents, minted in the US from 1851 to 1873.
    • If the penny is discontinued, it will join the ranks of other obsolete American coins, including the trime, a 3-cent coin discontinued in 1873, and the gold dollar coin, which was discontinued in 1889; that differed from the dollar coin currently in circulation.2025 February 11, Jiachuan Wu and Ash Reynolds, “As Trump aims to ax the penny, these are the coins that cost more than they're worth”, in NBC News

Forms of trime

pluraltrimes

Origin of trime

From Latin trēs (“three”), likely by analogy with dime.

Questions about trime

What does trime mean?
Trime means a silver coin worth three cents, minted in the US from 1851 to 1873.
What part of speech is trime?
Trime is a noun.
What is the plural of trime?
The plural of trime is trimes.

Words near trime in the dictionary

  1. Trimbles
  2. Trimboli
  3. Trimbolis
  4. Trimdon
  5. Trimdon Grange
  6. trime
  7. trimean
  8. trimeans
  9. trimebutine
  10. trimecaine
  11. trimedlure

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