English Explanatory Dictionary

dollar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
  2. Money generally.
  3. A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
  4. A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
  5. Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
  6. A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
name
  1. A small town in Clackmannanshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9698)
  2. An unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States.
  3. A former community in Ontario, Canada, now part of the city of Markham.
  4. A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
  5. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɒl.ə/ /ˈdɔː.lə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dollar.wav däʹlər /ˈdɑ.lɚ/ En-us-dollar.ogg /ˈdɒl.ɚ/ /ˈdɔl.ə/

Word forms

dollar dollars

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dalą Proto-West Germanic *dal Old High German tal Middle High German tal German Tal German Talerder. Middle Low German dālerbor. Dutch dalerbor. English dollar Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), earlier Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the town where the original dollars were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from Joachim + Tal. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Doublet of taler /thaler and tolar.

Synonyms

buck smackeroo

Related words

cent dale mill mille vale valley

Derived words

a day late and a dollar short agridollar almighty dollar American dollar antidollar Asiadollar AUD Aussie dollar Australian dollar Belize dollar bet a dime to a dollar bet a dollar to a dime bet a dollar to a donut bet a dollar to a doughnut bet one's bottom dollar billion-dollar grass billion-dollar question billion dollar question bottom dollar bright as a new dollar BZD CAD Canadian dollar Carolus dollar cents on the dollar chop dollar cyberdollar dollar-aire dollaraire dollar-and-cent dollar auction dollar-a-year man dollar bean the dollar bean dollar bill dollarbird dollarbuck dollar-cost averaging dollar cost averaging dollar dance dollar day dollar decade dollar democracy dollar diplomacy dollardom dollared dollarette dollarfish dollarisation dollarization dollarize dollarless dollarocracy dollar of our daddies dollar of the daddies dollar out Dollar Point dollar princess dollarship dollar sign
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