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money
English
Alternative forms
- monie (archaic)
- mony (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English money, moneie, moneye, borrowed from Old French moneie (“money”), from Latin mon?ta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. Displaced native Middle English schat (“money, treasure”) (from Old English s?eatt (“money, treasure, coin”)), Middle English feoh (“money, property”) (from Old English feoh (“money, property, cattle”), whence English fee). Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?ni/, [?m?ni]
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?ni/
- Rhymes: -?ni
- Hyphenation: mon?ey
Noun
money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)
- A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
- A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
- The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth
- An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- A person who funds an operation.
Synonyms
- beer tickets, bread, bucks, cake, cash, cheddar, coin, cream, currency, dinars, dosh, dough, ducats, folding stuff, funds, geld, gelt, greenbacks, jack, legal tender, lolly, means, moolah, lucre, paper, pennies, readies, sheets, shrapnel, simoleons, spends, spondulicks, sterling, wonga
- (generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value):
- (currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value):
- (hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins):
- See also Thesaurus:money
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- mint
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: moni
Translations
Further reading
- money in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- money in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- money at OneLook Dictionary Search
References
- money on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- myeon, yenom
Middle English
Alternative forms
- moneie, moneye, monye, monaye, monee, moonay, mone, monnoye, monoye, monnoy, monny, mony, monney, monay, monoie, monie
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French moneie, from Latin mon?ta; doublet of mynt.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mu?n?i?(?)/, /?mun?i?(?)/
Noun
money (uncountable)
- money, currency
- coinage, coin
- wealth, fortune
- bribe (immoral earnings)
Derived terms
- moneyles
- moneyour
- moneyen
- money-worthe
- monymaker
Descendants
- English: money
- Scots: money
- Yola: monie
References
- “monei(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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wampum
English
Etymology
Clipped from wampumpeag (from Narragansett [Term?]; compare the opposite clipping peag), which is a compound of wamp, wompi (“white”) + umpe (“string”) + -ag (plural suffix), and referred to the string of white shell-beads rather than the individual beads.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w?mp?m/
Noun
wampum (countable and uncountable, plural wampums or wampum)
- Small beads made from polished shells, especially white ones, formerly used as money and jewelry by certain Native American peoples.
- A string of such beads.
- (slang) Money.
Synonyms
- (small beads): seawan, peag; porcelain (such objects or strings of them)
Antonyms
- (white shells): suckanhock (black shells)
Derived terms
- wampum belt
- Wampumgate
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