dollar

Meaning

1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
2. (broadly) Money generally.
3. (Malaysia, broadly, colloquial) A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
4. (UK, colloquial, historical) A quarter of a pound or one crown, historically minted as a coin of approximately the same size and composition as a then-contemporary dollar coin of the United States, and worth slightly more.
5. (attributive, historical) Imported from the United States, and paid for in U.S. dollars. (Note: distinguish "dollar wheat", North American farmers' slogan, meaning a market price of one dollar per bushel.)
6. A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

Synonyms

buck

clam

dollar bill

dollar mark

smacker

dollar sign

one dollar bill

Trinidad and Tobago dollar

greenback

legal tenden

United States dollar

d.

belhoon

hig

higler

coin

🪙

count noun

currency

money

💸

peso

silver

US dollar

unit of money

Translations

dollar

💵

dólar

💵

dollaro

💵

دولار الولايات المتحدة

dollar

💵

Dollar

💵

dólar

💵

δολάριο

dòlar

💵

دولار

💵

δολλάριο

dolar

dollar des États-Unis

dollaro USA

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɒl.ə/

Etymology

Cognate with German: Sankt Joachimsthal

Cognate with Danish: daler

In summary

Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), earlier Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the town where the original dollars were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from Joachim + Tal. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Doublet of taler.