centime Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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
  2. noun a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit
    penny; cent.

WordNet

Cen`time" noun
Etymology
F., fr. L. centesimus. See Centesimal.
Definitions
  1. (F. Coinage) The hundredth part of a franc; a small French copper coin and money of account.

Webster 1913