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/ˈsɪks.pəns/ · noun
(obsolete, British, Irish, uncountable) The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling..
Finest apples, sixpence each.
When the ferry-boat with her wild freight pushed into the stream, nobody cared sixpence for the wasted time but the captain of the craft.
Have you got two sixpences for a shilling?
"One penny, sir!" He was roused at once from his abstraction; for it was a question to himself whether he had even that in his pocket. Sixpence was, however, discovered; he paid the toll, and passed on.
I remember playing card games with my grandfather. Games of memory, not of skill. If I won, he gave me sixpence; if he won, he didn't. We would play until I was bored, or until he ran out of sixpences.
Use sixpence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sixpence means (obsolete, British, Irish, uncountable) The value of six old pence; half of a shilling; or one-fortieth of a pound sterling..
Common synonyms include sixpenny bit, tanner, lord, tester.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Finest apples, sixpence each.
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