money
nounadjectivetop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈmʌn.i//
- United States//ˈmʌn.i//
- United States/[ˈmɐni]/
- //ˈmʊn.i//
A generally accepted means of exchange.
noun
- 1
A generally accepted means of exchange.
I cannot take money that I did not work for.
Before colonial times cowry shells imported from Mauritius were used as money in Western Africa.
She used to spend money every day on makeup.
Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.
- 2
A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
money supply; money market
- 3
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques, credit cards, or credit more generally.
You best have some money, cause there ain't no checks or credit here.
- 4
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
- 5
Wealth.
He was born with money.
After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?
- 6
A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
He was born into money.
He married money.
I grew up in Ballybeg, neither of my working-class parents came from money or went to university, so I was part of a working-class family, I assumed.
- 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.
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 Azerbaijani or Turkmen.
adjective
- 1
slangCool; excellent.
But Schilling was great again today. As my younger son would no doubt say, he's so money he doesn't know he's money. Two more like him and never mind the World Series; the Red Sox would be ready for the Super Bowl.
Forms
- plural
- monies, moneys
- comparative
- more money
- superlative
- most money
money · A generally accepted means of exchange.
Money · A surname.mongrel · Anything of mixed kind. A dog with a lineage of two or more…Monica · A female given name from Latin.