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THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
Source-reported lexicographic date for the ten-cent coin. The older tenth-part word predates this sense.
Present-Day EnglishFirst known coin use reported as 1786established
dime
Merriam-Webster first-known-use record for dime
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- 1786
- LOCATOR
- First Known Use, coin sense
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- established
WORD DOSSIERdime ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 245 ↗
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Dime — Definition and Word History
- AUTHOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Merriam-Webster
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- mw-dime