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money

noun
/ˈmʌn.i/UK/ˈmʌn.i/US/ˈmʊn.ɪ/

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.

  1. derived from monēta
  2. derived from muneie
  3. inherited from moneye

Definitions

  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.

  2. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a…

    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 checks, credit cards, or…

    Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such…

      The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.

    2. Wealth.

      • He was born with money.

    3. 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.

    4. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.

    5. A person who funds an operation.

    6. Cool

      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.

    7. A surname.

      • This point highlights several of John Money's contributions to the field of behavioral science.

    8. An unincorporated community in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States.

    9. An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at money. 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.

01money02entity03array04orderly05peaceful06strife07contention08subject09situated

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

9 hops · closes at money

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