How to pronounce pennyweight
American English pronunciation
PEN-ee-wayt
- IPA
- /ˈpɛniˌweɪt/
- Syllables
- PEN · ee · wayt (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What pennyweight means
A small unit of weight for gold and silver
In a sentence: The jeweler weighed the tiny gold nugget and said it was two pennyweights.
Where it comes from: It joins penny and weight. Long ago it was the weight of one English silver penny.
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