money
verb
- provide money for
noun
- object or record accepted as payment
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌni/ / [ˈmʌ̟ni] / /ˈmʊni/
adj
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 Azeri or Turkmen.
- Cool; 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.”
name
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.
- A surname.
“This point highlights several of John Money's contributions to the field of behavioral science.”
- 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.”
- An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.
noun
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 Azeri or Turkmen.
- 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.”
- A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
“money supply; money market”
- Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to 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.
“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?”
- A person, family or class that possesses wealth.
“He was born into money.”
“He married money.”
- An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
- A person who funds an operation.