# money
## English
### Alternative forms

* monie (archaic)
* mony (obsolete)

### Etymology

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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈmʌni/, [ˈmɐni]
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (US) IPA: /ˈmʌni/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌni
* Hyphenation: mon‧ey

### Noun

money (usually uncountable, plural monies or moneys) (plural used only in certain senses)
* A legally or socially binding conceptual contract of entitlement to wealth, void of intrinsic value, payable for all debts and taxes, and regulated in supply.
* A generally accepted means of exchange and measure of value.
    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.
** 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC: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.
** 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:At the same time, it is pouring money into cleaning up the country.
* 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 cheques/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; a person, family or class that possesses wealth.
    He was born with money.
    He married money.
** 2023 July 15, Megan Nolan, “‘I grew up on an “estate from hell” but I have no idea what class I am’: novelist Megan Nolan on the conundrum of identity”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN: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.
* An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
* A person who funds an operation.

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:money

#### Hyponyms

* bad money
* bait money
* bank money
* bar money
* black money
* blood money
* boat money
* bullet money
* call money
* cash money
* caution money
* checkbook money
* clean money
* coat money
* commodity money
* conduct money
* conscience money
* credit money
* current money
* deposit money
* dirty money
* dispatch money
* door money
* earnest money
* easy money
* even money
* fiat money
* folding money
* foreign money
* front money
* full-bodied money
* fun money
* funny money
* gate money
* gun money
* hard money
* head money
* hell money
* hog money
* hot money
* house money
* hush money
* key money
* knife money
* kopi money
* lawful money
* lunch money
* mad money
* Maundy money
* Mickey Mouse money
* Monopoly money
* necessity money
* neutral money
* new money
* old money
* paper money
* pin money
* plastic money
* plate money
* play money
* pocket money
* prize money
* protection money
* push money
* pussy money
* ready money
* rent money
* representative money
* seed money
* ship money
* side money
* silly money
* sin money
* smart money
* sound money
* spade money
* spending money
* standard money
* till money
* time money
* token money
* tribute money
* trophy money
* up-front money
* white money
* window money

#### Derived terms

* a fool and his money are soon parted
* antimoney
* appearance money
* at the money
* bad money drives out good
* banana money
* bang on the money
* beer money
* big-money
* big money
* blue money
* boot money
* broad money
* butter-and-egg money
* call money rate
* cap money
* channel money
* chimney-money
* chimney money
* Chinese money
* coffee money
* cold drink money
* color of someone's money
* colour of someone's money
* comeback money
* conscience-money
* cost of money
* Cranborne money
* cut money
* cybermoney
* danger money
* dark money
* dead money
* don't get your honey where you make your money
* dumb money
* earnest-money
* e-money
* equality money
* fairy money
* fiddler's money
* follow the money
* for all money
* for love nor money
* for love or money
* for my money
* found money
* fuck-you money
* fuck you money
* funk money
* gate-money
* ghost money
* glove money
* good money
* grease money
* hand money
* have money to burn
* have more money than God
* height money
* helicopter money
* hell money
* I don't have any money
* if money
* I have no money
* in the money
* invasion money
* I want my money back
* key-money
* knife money
* licence to print money
* license to print money
* light money
* loadsamoney
* lucky money
* made of money
* magic money tree
* make money
* marry money
* Maunday money
* Maundy money
* megamoney
* monergy
* monetary
* monetize
* money and fair words
* moneyback
* money bag
* Moneyball
* money belt
* money bomb
* money box
* moneyboy
* money broker
* money can't buy happiness
* money-changer
* money changer
* money changing
* money chest
* money clip
* money collection
* money cowry
* money crop
* money dance
* money does not smell
* money does not stink
* money doesn't grow on trees
* money economy
* moneyed
* moneyer
* money for jam
* money for old rope
* Moneygeddon
* money goggles
* money-grabbing
* money-grubber
* moneygrubber
* money-grubbing
* money-guard
* money has no smell
* moneyhatting
* moneyholic
* money-hungry
* money illusion
* moneyism
* money is no object
* moneyist
* money is the root of all evil
* moneyite
* money laundering
* moneylender
* moneylending
* moneyless
* moneylike
* moneylord
* money-loser
* money-love
* money machine
* Money-Mae
* money maker
* moneymaker
* money-maker
* money makes the world go around
* money makes the world go round
* money-making
* moneymaking
* moneyman
* money man
* money market
* money-market fund
* money market fund
* moneymonger
* money mule
* moneyness
* moneyocracy
* moneyocrat
* money of account
* money of necessity
* money order
* money phone
* money piece
* money pit
* money plant
* money primary
* money printer
* money purchase
* money-ridden
* moneyscape
* money scrivener
* money shift
* money shifting
* money shot
* money spell
* money spider
* money spinner
* money-spinner
* money-spinning
* money squeezing
* money supply
* money's worth
* money talks
* money talks and bullshit walks
* money talks, bullshit walks
* money to burn
* money tree
* moneyward
* moneywards
* moneywise
* money won is twice as sweet as money earned
* moneywort
* moneyworth
* MONIAC
* more money than brains
* more money than sense
* near money
* no money, no honey
* nonmoney
* on the money
* out of the money
* paper-money
* pen-and-ink money
* petromoney
* pink money
* pin-money
* piss money up the wall
* place money
* play with house money
* plough money
* postal money order
* postal money-order
* pot of money
* pour good money after bad
* precinct money
* press money
* prest money
* price of money
* printing-press money
* print money
* put one's money where one's mouth is
* quantity theory of money
* quasimoney
* quasi-money
* riot money
* rocking-chair money
* rocking chair money
* rogue money
* run for one's money
* run for the money
* shoe money
* Short money
* shut up and take my money
* single money
* sit-down money
* smart-money
* socket money
* soft money
* sold again and got the money
* spending-money
* spend money like water
* spirit money
* spy money
* still got one's communion money
* stone money
* straggling money
* strapped for money
* street money
* table money
* tea money
* the love of money is the root of all evil
* throw good money after bad
* throw money around
* throw money away
* tight money
* time is money
* time value of money
* unmoney
* vaginamoney
* value for money
* walk-around money
* walkaround money
* walk around money
* walking-about money
* walking-around money
* white money
* wildcat money
* young money
* you pays your money and you takes your chances
* you pays your money and you takes your choice
* your money is no good here
* your money or your life

#### Related terms

* mint

#### Descendants

* Nigerian Pidgin: moni
* Sranan Tongo: moni
* Tok Pisin: mani, moni
* → Chuukese: moni
* → Crow: bálaa
* → Esperanto: mono
* → Finnish: mani
* → Hungarian: mani
* → Japanese: マネー (manē)
* → Pitjantjatjara: mani

#### Translations

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### Adjective

money (comparative more money, superlative most money)
* (US, slang) Cool; excellent.
** 2011, Stewart O'Nan, Stephen King, Faithful: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.

### References

* money on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* (cool, excellent): Tony Thorne (2014) “money”, in Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, 4th edition, London, […]: Bloomsbury

### Further reading

* “money”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “money”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “money”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* myeon, yenom

## Middle English
### Noun

money
* Alternative form of moneye