banknote
Syllables: bank·noteUK/ˈbæŋknəʊ̯t//ˈbæŋkˌnoʊ̯t/
banknote noun: a piece of currency made of paper or polymer.
Noun
banknote (plural banknotes)
- A piece of currency made of paper or polymer.
- Near-synonym: paper money
- Synonyms:
- note, bill, flimsy, long-tailed one, paper money
- A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.
- Near-synonym: bank paper
- Was Captain Macheath here this Morning, for the Bank-notes he left with you last Week?1728, John Gay, The Beggar's Opera, I.4
- Synonyms:
- bank paper
banknote meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
banknote in Hindi
- paper or polymer currency
- नोट noṭ, बैंक के नोट baiṅk ke noṭ
banknote in Urdu
- paper or polymer currency
- نوٹ noṭ, رُقْعَہ مَصْرَف ruq'a masraf, بَینْک نوٹ baiṅk noṭ
banknote in Bengali
- paper or polymer currency
- ব্যাংকনোট bêṅkonōṭ
banknote in Malayalam
- note, bill, greenback
- ബാങ്ക്നോട്ട്, പണത്തിനു പകരം ചെല്ലുന്ന പത്രിക, നോട്ട്, ഉണ്ടിക, ശീട്ട്, ഹുണ്ടിക
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- banknote in Sanskrit
- धनपत्र dhanapatra
- banknote in Assamese
- বেংকনোট beṅkonüt
- banknote in Nepali
- नोट noṭ
- banknote in Arabic
- بَنْكْنُوت banknōt, وَرَقَة نَقْدِيَّة waraqa naqdiyya
- banknote in Malay
- wang kertas, nota bank, duit kertas
- banknote in Indonesian
- uang kertas
- banknote in Thai
- ธนบัตร tá-ná-bàt, แบงก์ bɛ́ng
- banknote in Vietnamese
- giấy bạc
- banknote in Myanmar
- ငွေစက္ကူ ngwecakku
Examples of banknote in a sentence
- The new banknotes will have an antiphotocopying feature.
- There is a cottage industry of vendors offering fresh banknotes to partygoers looking to spray their hosts.
- A number of skulduggerous means were used, including hoarding its rival's banknotes.
Synonyms of banknote
Forms of banknote
| plural | banknotes |
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Origin of banknote
From bank + note.
Questions about banknote
- What does banknote mean?
- Banknote means a piece of currency made of paper or polymer.
- What is banknote in Hindi?
- Banknote in Hindi is नोट (noṭ), बैंक के नोट (baiṅk ke noṭ). See Banknote meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is banknote?
- Banknote is a noun.
- How do you pronounce banknote?
- Banknote is pronounced /ˈbæŋknəʊ̯t/ (UK).
- What is the plural of banknote?
- The plural of banknote is banknotes.
Words near banknote in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: banknote (page history and authors); banknote (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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