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dime

PRONUNCIATION /daɪm/

a United States or Canadian coin worth ten cents

DATE
1786–today
SENSE
ten cent coin
FAMILY
Indo-European / Germanic
CANONICAL KEY
node:1:dime:attested:sense:ten-cent-coin

The dossier follows the coin sense while preserving the older tenth-part word behind it.

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GO DEEPERsemantic specializationestablished
Middle English · Middle English, c. 1150–1500 · tenth part tithe

dime

a tenth part; tithe

SOUND
Modern dime preserves the older spelling while English pronunciation developed to /daɪm/.
MEANING
A general tenth-part or tithe word is applied specifically to a coin worth one tenth of a dollar.
CHRONOLOGY
Middle English ancestry; United States coin sense reported from 1786.
SCHOLAR
Merriam-Webster Editors
CONFIDENCE
established — Merriam-Webster supplies both the older tenth-part meaning and the 1786 coin use.
Dime — Definition and Word HistorysupportsWord History: Etymology and First Known Use

Documents the older tenth-part word and reports 1786 for the coin sense.

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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexicographic first useestablished

Merriam-Webster first-known-use record for dime

Source-reported lexicographic date for the ten-cent coin. The older tenth-part word predates this sense.

dime dossier · recorded as dime
WITNESS RECORD ↗Dime — Definition and Word History ↗
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01dimedime · established