dollar
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Noun (4)dollars
- the basic monetary unit in many countries; equal to 100 centsType of monetary unitKinds United States dollar, Dominican dollar, Australian dollar, Zimbabwean dollar, Tuvalu dollar, narcodollar, Grenada dollar, Brunei dollar, Singapore dollar, Hong Kong dollar +14 moreParts cent
- a piece of paper money worth one dollarSynonyms: dollar billone dollar billbuckclamType of bill, note
- a United States coin worth one dollar“the dollar coin has never been popular in the United States”Type of coinKinds silver dollar, Susan B Anthony dollar
- a symbol of commercialism or greed“he worships the almighty dollar”“the dollar sign means little to him”Synonyms: dollar markdollar signType of symbol
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Translations
Noun designation for specific currency
- Spanish
- dólar
- French
- dollar
- German
- Dollar
- Italian
- dollaro
- Portuguese
- dólar
- Turkish
- dolar
- Russian
- до́ллар dóllar
- Arabic
- دُولَار dūlār
- Chinese
- 美元 měiyuán
- Japanese
- ドル doru
26 more languages
- Dutch
- dollar
- Polish
- dolar
- Swedish
- dollar
- Greek
- δολάριο dolário
- Korean
- 달러 dalleo
- Indonesian
- dolar
- Vietnamese
- đô la
- Hungarian
- dollár
- Portuguese (PT)
- dólar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 刀 dāo
- Catalan
- dòlar
- Czech
- dolar
- Danish
- dollar
- Esperanto
- dolaro
- Finnish
- dollari
- Georgian
- დოლარი dolari
- Hebrew
- דּוֹלָר dólar
- Icelandic
- dollari
- Latvian
- dolārs
- Lithuanian
- doleris
- Norwegian
- dollar
- Romanian
- dolar
- Serbo-Croatian
- dolar
- Swahili
- dola
- Welsh
- doler
- Yiddish
- דאָלאַר dolar
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: D. daalder, LG. dahler, G. thaler, an abbreviation of Joachimsthaler, i. e., a piece of money first coined, about the year 1518, in the valley (G. thal) of St. Joachim, in Bohemia. See Dale.
1. (a) A silver coin of the United States containing 371.25 grains of silver and 41.25 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 412.5 grains. (b) A gold coin of the United States containing 23.22 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.
☞ Previous to 1837 the silver dollar had a larger amount of alloy, but only the same amount of silver as now, the total weight being 416 grains. The gold dollar as a distinct coin was first made in 1849. The eagles, half eagles, and quarter eagles coined before 1834 contained 24.75 grains of gold and 2.25 grains of alloy for each dollar.
2. A coin of the same general weight and value as the United States silver dollar, though differing slightly in different countries, formerly current in Mexico, Canada, parts of South America, also in Spain, and several other European countries.
3. The value of a dollar; the unit of currency, differing in value in different countries, commonly employed in the United States and a number of other countries, including Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, parts of the Carribbean, Liberia, and several others.
Chop dollar. See under 9th Chop. — Dollar fish Zoology, a fish of the United States coast (Stromateus triacanthus), having a flat, roundish form and a bright silvery luster; — called also butterfish, and Lafayette. See Butterfish. — Trade dollar, a silver coin formerly made at the United States mint, intended for export, and not legal tender at home. It contained 378 grains of silver and 42 grains of alloy.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<character> "$", numeric character reference: "$", Common names: ITU-T: dollar sign. Rare: currency symbol; buck; cash; string; escape (when used as the echo of ASCII ESC); ding; cache; INTERCAL: big money.
Well-known uses of the dollar symbol in computing include as a prefix on the names of string variables in BASIC, shell and related languages like Perl. In shell languages it is also used in positional parameters so "$1" is the first parameter to a shell script, "$2" the second, etc. In a regular expression, $ matches the end of the string.
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