dollar
dollar definition
dol·lar (däl′ər)
noun
- ☆ the basic monetary unit of the U.S., equal to 100 cents: symbol, $: certain other countries, as Ecuador, Panama, El Salvador, and the Marshall Islands, have officially adopted this monetary unit
- any of the standard monetary units of various other countries, as of Australia, Barbados, and Canada
- the Mexican peso
- a coin or piece of paper money of the value of a dollar
- Obsolete a Spanish coin (piece of eight) used in American Revolutionary times
Etymology: LowG & Fl daler < Ger thaler (now taler), contr. < Joachimsthaler, coin made (orig. in 1519) at (St.) Joachimstal, Bohemia < (St.) Joachim + thal, tal, valley: see dale
Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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