money

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English

Alternative forms

• monie (archaic)
• mony (obsolete)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌni/, [ˈmɐni]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌni/
• Rhymes: -ʌni
• Hyphenation: mon‧ey

Noun

money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)

1. 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.
2. A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
3. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

4. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
5. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
6. Wealth; 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.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:money

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• mint

Descendants

Translations

Adjective

money (comparative more money, superlative most money)

1. (US, slang) Cool; excellent.

References

• money on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (cool, excellent): Tony Thorne (2014) “money”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London,  […]: Bloomsbury

Further reading

• “money”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “money”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “money”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• myeon, yenom

Middle English

Noun

money

1. Alternative form of moneye