English Explanatory Dictionary

money

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A generally accepted means of exchange.
  2. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
  3. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
  4. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
  5. Wealth.
  6. A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
  7. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
  8. A person who funds an operation.
adj
  1. Cool; excellent.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States.
  3. An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.

Pronunciation

/ˈmʌn.i/ [ˈmɐn.ɪ(i)] En-uk-money.ogg [ˈmʌ̟n.i] en-us-money.ogg /ˈmʊn.ɪ/ /ˈmən.i/ [mɐ.niˑ]

Word forms

money monies moneys monie mony more money most money

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin Monēta Latin monēta Old French moneie Old French monoie Anglo-Norman muneiebor. Middle English moneye English money From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, 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.

Synonyms

ackers bees and honey blunt bones brass bread bread and honey Bugs Bunny cake cheddar cheese ching clams coin cream currency dinero dosh dough feds fedi finances flizz flow funding funds gravy gwop gwolla jack legal tender lolly lovely jubbly mazuma means money moola mozzarella muck oof ooftish paper rhino scratch scrilla shrapnel simoleons smackers smackeroos smackeroonies spend spondulicks swag wampum wonga yenom

Related words

mint wallet billfold purse pocketbook bank vault safe safe deposit box money box treasury price value unit of measure wealthy property :Category:Currency argent dinheiro salapi

Derived words

a fool and his money a fool and his money are easily parted a fool and his money are soon parted antimoney appearance money at the money bad money drives out good banana money bang on the money beer money big-money big money blue money boot money box money broad money butter-and-egg money call money rate cap money channel money chimney-money chimney money Chinese money coffee money cold drink money color of someone's money colour of someone's money comeback money conscience-money cost of money Cranborne money cut money cybermoney danger money dark money dead money disordered money behavior don't get your honey where you make your money dumb money earnest-money e-money equality money fairy money fast money fiddler's money follow the money for all money for love nor money for love or money for my money found money fuck you money fuck-you money funk money gate-money ghost money glove money good money grease money green wax money

Translations

Finnish: raha
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