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dollar

See also: Dollar and dollár

English

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A one-dollar note (US), front and back.

Etymology

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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.

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Noun

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dollar (plural dollars)

  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 $.
    Synonyms: buck, smackeroo
    • 2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
      Yeah, but why? Lincoln doesn’t need the penny for notoriety. He’s everywhere. We put him on novelty bandages, cup-and-ball games, and creepy Chia Pets. And you know where else we put him? The five-dollar bill! You know, the thing that’s worth 500 times more than the penny!
  2. (by extension) Money generally.
    • 2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society:
      Television, a favored source of news and information, pulls the largest share of advertising monies. In 1935, newspapers received 45 percent of the advertising dollar, magazines 8 percent, and radio 7 percent.
  3. (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.
    • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, in The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.:
      We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo
    • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist‎[1], volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
      But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
  4. (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.)
    • 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952:
      The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
    • 1956, The Spectator, volume 197, page 342:
      For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.
  5. (nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

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Anagrams

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Azerbaijani

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Other scripts
Cyrillic доллар
Abjad دوْلار

Etymology

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Ultimately from English dollar.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdoɫːɑr]
  • Hyphenation: dol‧lar

Noun

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dollar (definite accusative dolları, plural dollarlar)

  1. dollar

Declension

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    Declension of dollar
singular plural
nominative dollar
 dollarlar
definite accusative dolları
 dollarları
dative dollara
 dollarlara
locative dollarda
 dollarlarda
ablative dollardan
 dollarlardan
definite genitive dolların
 dollarların
    Possessive forms of dollar
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) dollarım dollarlarım
sənin (“your”) dolların dollarların
onun (“his/her/its”) dolları dollarları
bizim (“our”) dollarımız dollarlarımız
sizin (“your”) dollarınız dollarlarınız
onların (“their”) dolları or dollarları dollarları
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) dollarımı dollarlarımı
sənin (“your”) dollarını dollarlarını
onun (“his/her/its”) dollarını dollarlarını
bizim (“our”) dollarımızı dollarlarımızı
sizin (“your”) dollarınızı dollarlarınızı
onların (“their”) dollarını or dollarlarını dollarlarını
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) dollarıma dollarlarıma
sənin (“your”) dollarına dollarlarına
onun (“his/her/its”) dollarına dollarlarına
bizim (“our”) dollarımıza dollarlarımıza
sizin (“your”) dollarınıza dollarlarınıza
onların (“their”) dollarına or dollarlarına dollarlarına
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) dollarımda dollarlarımda
sənin (“your”) dollarında dollarlarında
onun (“his/her/its”) dollarında dollarlarında
bizim (“our”) dollarımızda dollarlarımızda
sizin (“your”) dollarınızda dollarlarınızda
onların (“their”) dollarında or dollarlarında dollarlarında
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) dollarımdan dollarlarımdan
sənin (“your”) dollarından dollarlarından
onun (“his/her/its”) dollarından dollarlarından
bizim (“our”) dollarımızdan dollarlarımızdan
sizin (“your”) dollarınızdan dollarlarınızdan
onların (“their”) dollarından or dollarlarından dollarlarından
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) dollarımın dollarlarımın
sənin (“your”) dollarının dollarlarının
onun (“his/her/its”) dollarının dollarlarının
bizim (“our”) dollarımızın dollarlarımızın
sizin (“your”) dollarınızın dollarlarınızın
onların (“their”) dollarının or dollarlarının dollarlarının

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Crimean Tatar

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Etymology

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From English dollar

Noun

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dollar

  1. dollar (monetary unit)

Declension

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Declension of dollar
singular plural
nominative dollar dollarlar
genitive dollarnıñ dollarlarnıñ
dative dollarğa dollarlarğa
accusative dollarnı dollarlarnı
locative dollarda dollarlarda
ablative dollardan dollarlardan

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Danish

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Etymology

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From English dollar, from German Taler, Thaler. Doublet of daler.

Noun

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dollar c (singular definite dollaren, plural indefinite dollar)

  1. a dollar (monetary unit)

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Declension of dollar
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative dollar dollaren dollar
dollars 		dollarene
dollarsene
genitive dollars dollarens dollars
dollars' 		dollarenes
dollarsenes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔlɑr/
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  • Hyphenation: dol‧lar

Noun

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dollar m (plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)

  1. dollar (currency, especially the US dollar)

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French

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Etymology

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English dollar.

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Noun

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dollar m (plural dollars)

  1. dollar

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Indonesian

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Noun

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dollar (first-person possessive dollarku, second-person possessive dollarmu, third-person possessive dollarnya)

  1. alternative form of dolar (“dollar”)

Irish

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Etymology

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From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”).

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  • IPA(key): /ˈd̪ˠɔl̪ˠəɾˠ/

Noun

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dollar m (genitive singular dollair, nominative plural dollair)

  1. dollar

Declension

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Declension of dollar

First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative dollar dollair
Vocative a dhollair a dhollara
Genitive dollair dollar
Dative dollar dollair

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an dollar na dollair
Genitive an dollair na ndollar
Dative leis an dollar

don dollar

leis na dollair

Mutation

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Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
dollar dhollar ndollar
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar.

Noun

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dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarene)

  1. a dollar (monetary unit)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar.

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dollar m (definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarane)

  1. a dollar (monetary unit)

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Swedish

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Etymology

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From English dollar.

Noun

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dollar c

  1. dollar

Declension

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Declension of dollar 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative dollar dollarn dollar dollarna
Genitive dollars dollarns dollars dollarnas
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