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banknote

noun
/ˈbæŋknəʊ̯t/UK/ˈbæŋkˌnoʊ̯t/US/ˈbeɪ̯ŋkˌnoʊ̯t/

Etymology

From bank + note.

  1. derived from *newd-✻ — “to acquire, make use of”
  2. inherited from *nutō✻ — “enjoyment, utilisation”
  3. inherited from *notu✻
  4. inherited from notu — “use, enjoyment, advantage, profit, utility”
  5. inherited from note — “use, usefulness, profit”
  6. compounded as banknote — “bank + note”

Definitions

  1. A piece of currency made of paper or polymer.

    • Near-synonym: paper money

  2. A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.

    • Near-synonym: bank paper
    • Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at banknote. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at banknote. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at banknote

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA