Money
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A surname.
proper noun
- 1
A surname.
This point highlights several of John Money's contributions to the field of behavioral science.
- 2
An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States.
Money, Mississippi, looks exactly like it sounds. Named in that persistent Southern tradition of irony and with the attendant tradition of nescience, the name becomes slightly sad, a marker of self-conscious ignorance that might as well be embraced because, let’s face it, it isn’t going away.
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An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
Etymology
* As an English surname, from the noun money. Compare Minter, Monier. * As an Irish surname, variant of Mooney. * As a French surname, variant of Monnet, itself a variant of Monet.
Forms
- plural
- Moneys