income
/ˈɪnˌkʌm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.97 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An entrance-fee.
Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable
noun
A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
Archaic; Countable; Uncountable
noun
A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
British usage; Countable; Uncountable
noun
That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground."
- "In 1970 the richest 1 percent made 9 percent of the nation’s income; now that top slice makes closer to 25 percent."
- "It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries."
- "more abundant incomes of light and strength from God"
- "Pain payes the income of ech precious thing,"
- "I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods."
Etymology
From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Íenkúumen (“income”), West Frisian ynkommen (“income”), Dutch inkomen, inkomst (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Low German Inkumst (“income”), German Einkommen, Einkunft (“income, earnings, competence”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
- Obsolete
- Archaic
- British usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Finance.