money
/ˈmʌn.i/
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.64 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).
Uncountable
noun
Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques, credit cards, or credit more generally.
Uncountable
noun
The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country."
- "money supply; money market"
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmʌn.i/
- British English: /ˈmʌn.i/
Usage
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Slang
- Countable
Inflected Forms
monies (plural)
moneys (plural)
monie (alternative, archaic)
mony (alternative, obsolete)
munney (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
munny (alternative, pronunciation spelling)
more money (comparative)
most money (superlative)