sou : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: sou	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sou
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sou n a former French coin of low denomination; often used of any small amount of money; "he hasn't a sou to his name"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sou \Sou\, n.; pl. {Sous}or. [F. sou, OF. sol, from L. solidus a gold coin, in LL., a coin of less value. See {Sold}, n., {Solid}, and and cf. {Sol}, {Soldo}.] An old French copper coin, equivalent in value to, and now displaced by, the five-centime piece ([frac1x20] of a franc), which is popularly called a sou.