money
Noun
- An official medium of exchange and measure of value.
- the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender
- "we tried to collect the money he owed us"
- wealth reckoned in terms of money
- "all his money is in real estate"
- the official currency issued by a government or national bank
- "he changed his money into francs"
- 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.
Adj
- Cool; excellent.
Examples
- Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
- He married money.
- He was born with money.
- I cannot take money that I did not work for.
- money supply; money market
- She used to spend money every day on makeup.
- Winning a Scrabble game often feels like earning MONEY, albeit in the form of points.
Origin / Etymology
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
Bugs Bunny, ackers, bees and honey, blunt, brass, bread, bread and honey, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching, clams, coin, cream, currency, dinero, dosh, dough, fedi, feds, finances, flizz, flow, funding, funds, gravy, gwolla, gwop, jack, legal tender, lolly, lovely jubbly, mazuma, means, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, oof, ooftish, paper, rhino, scratch, scrilla, shrapnel, simoleons, smackeroonies, smackeroos, smackers, spend, spondulicks, swag, wampum, wonga, yenom
Scrabble Score: 10
money: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordmoney: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
money: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary