bank

Meaning

Noun

1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. A branch office of such an institution.
3. An underwriter or controller of a card game.
4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
5. The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang) Money; profit.
7. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
9. A device used to store coins or currency.
10. a natural elevation of mud and other material under sea, rising for instance from a continental shelf
11. a mound or mass of cloud or fog
12. A group or collection of telephones.

Verb

1. To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
2. To put into a bank.
3. (slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

Verb

1. To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
2. To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
3. To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
4. To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
5. To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
6. (obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
7. To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.

Verb

To arrange or order in a row.

Synonyms

shore

coast

edge

embankment

beach

🏖️

side

shoal

dike

border

riverbank

sandbank

stock

savings bank

deposit

mound

bench

slope

margin

dam

rim

cant

rely

trust

corner

riverside

angle

camber

list

depository

bank building

waterside

banking company

wash

🧽

swear

strand

slant

berm

sandbar

inside corner

brim

low wall

bund

ridge

careen

coin bank

rake

cliff

money box

cluster

limit

levee

fund

entrenchment

shallow place

ascent

block

bridge

brink

causeway

dock

financial institution

garner

group

inclination

incline

line

littoral

precipice

roll

seashore

seaside

set

skirt

storehouse

terrace

tilt

warehouse

weir

banking concern

water’s edge

depository financial institution

enwrap

escarp

escarpment

face

family

👪

financial

penny bank

flank

ford

fringe

front

collect

gang

swear a rely

gather

gathering

gird

grade

side slope

hard shoulder

heap

heaping

heel

hem in

hillock

hillside

hold in

grade of slope

jack horse

inventory

islet

kitchen

lean

ledge

cock

library

coastline

slope gradient

clutch

storage volume

location

manifold

close in

mass

memory cell

memory location

memory stack

module

mole

close

circle

⭕

multitude

nexus

outfit

perimeter

periphery

phalanx

pile

pool

population

memory module

provision

purse

👛

quay

rack

chair

🪑

rampart

rank

reckon

recline

cell

rely on

calculate

bulwark

brae

river bank

bracket

falling gradient

row

run along

body

bet

beset

seaboard

seacoast

leveed bank

saddle piece

section

-

shallow

shallow water

bend

bed

🛏️

beard

desk frame

bay

slide

battery

🔋

snowdrift

squad

stack

batter

stockpile

stockroom

stock room

storage

storage allocation

storage cell

storage location

store

degree of slope

battalion

string

🪢

subgroup

succession

surround

bathe

table

taper

storage stack

storage module

true

base

vein

verge

versant

wager

wall in

store location

banks

waterfront

banking

store cell

band

row of contacts

banking institution

bank of river

Bk

backing

hedge in

aggregation

landing place

lay a wager

rely upon

higgery

savings box

storage element

rivage

back

🔙

water-front

sand-bank

bk.

bordering region

cause-way

ridge of earth

aggregate

put money

ite vault

discussion section

covey

cove

Danube

decline

depend

depend on

depend upon

count

🔢

cooperative

depot

confine

dip

mound over

dump

dyke

confide

complex

encircle

enclose

ensemble

company

entrepot

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bæŋk/

Etymology

From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco.