dollar

Meaning

1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
2. Money generally.
3. (colloquial) 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.
4. 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.)
5. A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

Concepts

dollar

buck

clam

dollar bill

smacker

dollar mark

dollar sign

one dollar bill

greenback

Trinidad and Tobago dollar

coin

currency

legal tenden

d.

United States dollar

peso

unit of money

belhoon

hig

higler

money

silver

US dollar

count noun

Hyphenated as

dol‧lar

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈdɒl.ə/

Etymology

Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), from Sankt Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the name for coins minted in German Sankt Joachimsthal (“St. Joachim's Valley”) (now Jáchymov, Czech Republic). Ultimately from Joachim + Tal (“valley”). Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Cognate to Danish daler. Doublet of taler.