a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo
a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
例句
A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a centime's worth of chestnuts. 把但丁的对开本拿来当作台子使，我们快乐无边，同吃了一百个栗子。
As I haven't a centime in my pocket I don't quite see the point of this, until he bursts out: "For Christ's sake, remember that we're broke. 我衣袋里的确连一个生丁也没有，所以我不大明白他这样说目的何在。后来他嚷开了，这时我才明白。
