dollar
Plural: dollars
Noun
- The basic monetary unit of the United States and other countries.
- the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 cents
- a piece of paper money worth one dollar
- a United States coin worth one dollar
- "the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States"
- a symbol of commercialism or greed
- "he worships the almighty dollar"
- "the dollar sign means little to him"
- 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 $.
- Money generally.
- 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.
- 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.)
- A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.
Examples
- He was hoping for a dollar-sign score, but only managed a modest triple-word play in Scrabble.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Scrabble Score: 7
dollar: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Worddollar: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dollar: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 9
dollar: valid Words With Friends Word