From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie, from Latin monēta, 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.

• (British) IPA: /ˈmʌni/, [ˈmɐni]
• (America) IPA: /ˈmʌni/

money (uncountable) (plural used only in certain senses)

1. 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.
2. 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.

3. A currency maintained by a state or other entity which can guarantee its value (such as a monetary union).

   money supply;  money market

4. Hard cash in the form of banknotes and coins, as opposed to cheques/checks, credit cards, or credit more generally.
5. The total value of liquid assets available for an individual or other economic unit, such as cash and bank deposits.
6. Wealth; a person, family or class that possesses wealth.

   He was born with money.

   He married money.

7. An item of value between two or more parties used for the exchange of goods or services.
8. A person who funds an operation.

• See Thesaurus:money

• mint

• French: argent
• German: Geld
• Italian: denaro, soldi, moneta, sverza, palanca
• Portuguese: dinheiro, grana (colloquial), dindim (slang)
• Russian: де́ньги
• Spanish: dinero, (colloquial) cobres, lana (Mexico), pasta (Spain), pisto (El Salvador), plata (Latin America), real (Venezuela), el vil metal (colloquial), vento (South America)

• French: argent
• German: Geld
• Italian: valuta
• Portuguese: dinheiro
• Russian: де́ньги
• Spanish: dinero

• French: liquide
• German: Bargeld
• Italian: contante, grano, conquibus
• Portuguese: dinheiro
• Russian: нали́чные
• Spanish: efectivo, cash (America), pecunia (colloquial)

• Italian: liquido

• German: Vermögen, Reichtum
• Italian: benestante, ricco, ricchezza
• Portuguese: riqueza
• Russian: бога́тство

• Italian: moneta di scambio
• Russian: платёжное сре́дство

• Italian: finanziatore

money

1. (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.

1. Surname.
   • 1991, Eli Coleman, John Money: A Tribute, page xiv:

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

2. A community in Mississippi.