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#* {{RQ:Bacon War with Spain|passage=He {{...}} takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and '''currency''', and not after intrinsic value.}}
#* {{RQ:Bacon War with Spain|passage=He {{...}} takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and '''currency''', and not after intrinsic value.}}
#* {{RQ:Irving Sketch Book|title=English Writers on America|page=112|passage=The bare name of Englishman {{...}} too often gave a transient '''currency''' to the worthless and ungrateful.}}
#* {{RQ:Irving Sketch Book|title=English Writers on America|page=112|passage=The bare name of Englishman {{...}} too often gave a transient '''currency''' to the worthless and ungrateful.}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[fluency]]; readiness of utterance
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} [[fluency|Fluency]]; readiness of utterance.


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Revision as of 01:06, 12 March 2024

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin currentia, from Latin currēns, from currō.

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (US):(file)
    (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)

Noun

currency (countable and uncountable, plural currencies)

  1. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions.
    Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians.
  2. (more specifically) Paper money.
    • 1943, William Saroyan, chapter 3, in The Human Comedy:
      Spangler went through his pockets, coming out with a handful of small coins, one piece of currency and a hard-boiled egg.
  3. The state of being current; general acceptance, recognition or use.
    The jargon’s currency.
    • 1983 April 9, Kenneth Hale Wehmann, “Conscientious Resistance”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
      Fear of punishment has no currency with me as long as I remain convinced of the larger value of what I have done.
  4. (obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
    • a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
      He […] takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value.
    • 1819 July 31, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “English Writers on America”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number II, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 112:
      The bare name of Englishman […] too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful.
  5. (obsolete) Fluency; readiness of utterance.

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See also

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