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Moneyed

Definition: Moneyed

Moneyed

Adjective

1. Based on or arising from the possession of money or wealth; "moneyed interests".

2. Having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats"; "wealthy corporations".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "moneyed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)


Synonyms: Moneyed

Synonyms: affluent (adj), flush (adj), loaded (adj), monied (adj), wealthy (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: moneyless (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Moneyed

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Wealth

Rich man, moneyed man, warm man; man of substance; capitalist, millionaire, tippybob, Nabob, Croesus, idas, Plutus, Dives, Timon of Athens; Timocracy, Plutocracy; Danae.

Adjective: wealthy, rich, affluent, opulent, moneyed, monied, worth much; well to do, well off; warm; comfortable, well, well provided for.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Moneyed

Specialty definitions using "moneyed": Talented. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Moneyed

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

Azerbaijan

The overall economic situation of the average citizen remains tenuous; although a growing moneyed class has emerged in Baku, over 60 percent of the population live in poverty, according to World Bank statistics. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Moneyed

"Moneyed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.48% of the time. "Moneyed" is used about 21 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)90.48%1980,337
Lexical Verb (past participle)4.76%1339,140
Lexical Verb (past tense)4.76%1339,140
                    Total100.00%21N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Moneyed

Expression using "moneyed": moneyed classes. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Moneyed

Language Translations for "moneyed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

që ka para, i kamur (heeled, propertied, well heeled, well off, well to do). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏موسر (affluent, opulent, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well to do), ‏مستمد من المال, ‏مالي (cash, financial, fiscal, monetary, pecuniary, pocket), ‏غني (affluent, in the money, loaded, mean, opulent, plushy, rich, spacious, substantial, wealthy, well off, well to do), ‏ثري (fat, opulent, plushy, posh, privileged, prosperous, rich, substantial, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well to do). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

богат (abounding, bounteous, fat, full, generous, halcyon, heavy, high, lordly, luxuriant, mellow, opulent, plenteous, podded, pregnant, princely, prodigal, profuse, prolific, rank, rich, silk stocking, slap up, substantial, wanton, wealthy, well heeled, well off, well-fixed), паралия (flush, heeled, loaded, made of money). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

有'. (various references)

   

Czech

  

zámožný (opulent, rich, substantial, wealthy, well off, well to do), bohatý (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, bountiful, copious, extensive, exuberant, generous, lavish, opulent, plentiful, prostate, rich, rife, voluminous, wealthy, well off). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

rahakas. (various references)

   

French

  

riche (with money), cossu, argenté. (various references)

   

German

  

wohlhabend (abundant, affluent, comfortably off, in easy circumstances, opulent, prosperous, richly, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-to-do), vermögend (affluent, powerful, rich, substantial, wealthy, well off, well-off). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλούσιοσ (abundant in, opulent, rich, wealthy, well to do), πολυχρήματοσ (moneybag). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בעל "ון (capitalist, financier). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pénzes (crummy, heeled, loaded), gazdag (affluent, be in the money, crackerjack, crummy, exuberant, fat, fraught, luxuriant, mellow, plenteous, plentiful, redundant, rich, spicy, superabundant, to be in the chips, wealthy, well heeled, well-off, well-to-do). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

kaya (rich, well-to-do). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ricco (abounding, abundant, affluent, empire, full, loaded, mellow, pursy, realm, rich, rich person, richer, rife, sumptuous, valuable, wealthier, wealthily, wealthy, well to do, well-off), in denaro, di denaro, danaroso. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

丸持ち (moneyed man). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まるもち (moneyed man). (various references)

   

Manx

  

argidagh (financier, fiscal, silver, silvered, silvery, the rich). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oneyedmay

   

Portuguese

  

máquina de trocar dinheiro (change machine), endinheirado (rich, wealthy, well heeled). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

financiar (city man, financial, financier, fiscal, monetary, pecuniary), cu bani (heeled, pecunious), bogat (abundant, abundantly, affluent, ample, amply, bonanza, bountiful, copious, copiously, expensive, exuberant, fat, feathered, fertile, fortuned, free, full, fully, gaudy, heeled, high, highly, lush, luxurious, opulent, pecunious, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, purple, rank, redundant, rich, richly, saturated, Square, substantial, sumptuous, valuable, warm, wealthy, well off, well to do, well-off), bãnesc (pecuniary), avut (had, pecunious, propertied, prosperous, rich, wealthy, well off, well to do). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

богатый (affluent, crummy, in the money, opulent, pregnant, pursy, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well-heeled). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

imućan (comfortably off, opulent, propertied, wealthy, well heeled, well off), bogat (loaded, money: in the money, opulent, rich, wealthy, well to do). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adinerado (propertied, wealthy, well off, well to do). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

penning- (monetary, pecuniary), förmögen (affluent, capable, made, wealthy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zengin (affluent, bonanza, fertile, generous, in the chips, in the money, opulent, propertied, prosperous, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well-endowed), paralı (coin-op, coin-operated, flush, heeled, loaded, mercenary, paid, paying, rich, wealthy, well heeled). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

грошовий (nickel and dime, nummary, pecuniary), багатий (abundant, affluent, ample, bounteous, copious, oof-bird, oofy, opulent, pinguid, plenteous, plentiful, profuse, pursy, redundant, rich, rife, superb, wealthy, well off). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

gi u có bằng tiền, có nhiều tiền. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ariannog (rich, wealthy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Moneyed

Misspellings

"Moneyed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: minibead, moncytes, moneie, moneies, moneysee, monkeyed, Monnoyer, monoeyed, oneyed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Moneyed"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "moneyed" (pronounced mu"nēd)
5m u" n ē dmonied.
3-n ē daccompanied, hackneyed, journeyed, mutinied, ponied, unaccompanied.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Moneyed

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-m-n-o-y"

-1 letter: omened, yeomen.

-2 letters: demon, donee, doyen, emend, emyde, enemy, monde, money, needy.

-3 letters: deem, deme, demo, demy, dene, deny, dome, done, dyne, emyd, eyed, eyen, eyne, meed, mend, meno, mode, mony, need, neem, node, nome, omen, yond.

-4 letters: dee, den, dey, doe, dom, don, dye, eme, end, eon, eye, med, men, mod, mon, nee.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-m-n-o-y"
 

+1 letter: monkeyed.

 

+3 letters: deployment, endoenzyme, endothermy, unemployed.

 

+4 letters: deployments, dynamometer, embryonated, endoenzymes, honeycombed, honeymooned, hypermodern, molybdenite, moneylender, reembodying, syndesmoses, unemployeds.

 

+5 letters: appendectomy, densitometry, dynamometers, dysmenorrhea, molybdenites, moneylenders, redeployment, tremendously.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Moneyed


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 6E 65 79 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101110 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#121 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006E 0065 0079 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47818071917170

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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