dimes
SayDYMZ/daɪmz/
- 1Plural of dime.
He counted out forty dimes to pay for the bus fare.
The vending machine rejected two of her dimes.
Note
A regular plural that carries every meaning of the singular with it. In everyday American and Canadian use it counts ten-cent coins. In slang it can just as easily count tens in a deck of cards, ten-dollar sums or thousand-dollar sums, and in US and Philippine usage it counts assists. When the amount matters, the surrounding context has to settle which reading is meant.
dimes is a form of dime
dime, noun: A United States coin worth one-tenth of a dollar, equal to ten cents. Full entry
- Forms
- dimedimes plural
- Spelling
- dime → dimes: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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