Sou

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  • noun. One of several coins formerly used in France, worth a small amount.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An abbreviation of southern.
  • noun. An old Roman, Gallic, and French coin, originally of gold, then of silver, and finally of copper.
  • noun. an old copper piece worth fifteen deniers (Littré); also, in the corrupted form sou marquee, said to be applied in the southern United States to a sou bearing some distinguishing mark, as a sou of 1767 counterstamped RF, or one marked in some way as counterfeit or spurious.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece (1/20 of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An old French copper coin.
  • noun. (slang) cent; pocket money.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money
  • Word Usage
    "I'm sorry for not talking about Iran election and after effects or Netanyahu settlements, or the grilling of the interior minister or the nationality for the sons of the Lebanese as it should, only that Michael Jackson was able to move the stagnant waters of the blog sou is amazed and shocked that so many care:"
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