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Definition: Moneyed |
MoneyedAdjective1. 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: MoneyedSynonyms: affluent (adj), flush (adj), loaded (adj), monied (adj), wealthy (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: moneyless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Moneyed |
| Specialty definitions using "moneyed": Talented. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90.48% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 4.76% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 21 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "moneyed": moneyed classes. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 máquina de trocar dinheiro (change machine), endinheirado (rich, wealthy, well heeled). (various references) 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) богатый (affluent, crummy, in the money, opulent, pregnant, pursy, rich, wealthy, well heeled, well-heeled). (various references) imućan (comfortably off, opulent, propertied, wealthy, well heeled, well off), bogat (loaded, money: in the money, opulent, rich, wealthy, well to do). (various references) adinerado (propertied, wealthy, well off, well to do). (various references) penning- (monetary, pecuniary), förmögen (affluent, capable, made, wealthy). (various references) 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) 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) gi u có bằng tiền, có nhiều tiền. (various references) ariannog (rich, wealthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "moneyed" (pronounced mu"nēd) |
| 5 | m u" n ē d | monied. |
| 3 | -n ē d | accompanied, hackneyed, journeyed, mutinied, ponied, unaccompanied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 6E 65 79 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- -. . -.--. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01101110 01100101 01111001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o n e y e d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818071917170 |
| 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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