denier

From Old French denier, from Latin denarius. Doublet of dinar.

• enPR: dənyā'
• enPR: dənî(r)', IPA^(key): /dəˈnɪə(ɹ)/ (coin)
  
• enPR: dĕn'yə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnjə(ɹ)/ (unit of fineness of yarn)

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• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

denier (plural deniers)

1. (now historical) An old French coin worth one-twelfth of a sou.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 117:

     A bronze denier bearing the inscription CONRADUS around a central cross, was minted in Lugdunum.

2. A unit of linear density which indicates the fineness of fiber or yarn, equal to one gram per 9000 meters, used especially to measure or indicate the fineness of hosiery. Originally equal to the weight of a denier coin per 9600 aunes.
   • 2002, Jill Mansell, Staying at Daisy's:

     Upstairs she rummaged through her chest of drawers, finally unearthing an unopened pack of ten denier barely blacks.

• tex

deny +‎ -er.

• enPR: dĭnī'ə(r), IPA^(key): /dɪˈnaɪə(ɹ)/

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denier (plural deniers)

1. One who denies or forbids something.
   • 2003, ABA Journal, volume 89:

     Also, visitation deniers don't always get off with a slap on the wrist.

2. One who denies the existence of something.

   Holocaust denier

   global warming denier

   AIDS denier

• climate denier

• denialism
• denialist

• Edirne, Nereid, diener, nereid, reined

From French denier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdenier/, [ˈde̞nie̞r]
• Rhymes: -enier
• Syllabification^(key): de‧ni‧er

denier

1. denier (unit of measure)
2. denier (old coin)

• dreeni, reiden

From Middle French, from Old French denier, inherited from Latin dēnārius. Doublet of dénaire.

• IPA^(key): /də.nje/

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denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)
2. (by extension) money
3. denier (unit of weight)

• deniers publics

• “denier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• de rien

From Old French denier, Latin dēnārius.

denier m (plural deniers)

1. denier (coin)

• French: denier

From Latin dēnārius.

denier m (oblique plural deniers, nominative singular deniers, nominative plural denier)

1. denier (coin)

• Middle French: denier
  • French: denier
• → English: denier

From French denier.

denier m (plural denieri)

1. denier (weight)

denier c

1. denier

• diener