half crown

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   an English coin worth half a crown

   Broadercoin

Questions about half crown

What does half crown mean?

half crown means "an English coin worth half a crown".

Is half crown a common word?

half crown is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.