digital currency
digital currency noun: any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on computer systems, especially over the internet, and does not have a classical physical form of fiat currency that can be held in the hand. It may be either a cryptocurrency (involving blockchain and coin mining) or not.
Noun
digital currency (countable and uncountable, plural digital currencies)
- Any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on computer systems, especially over the internet, and does not have a classical physical form of fiat currency that can be held in the hand. It may be either a cryptocurrency (involving blockchain and coin mining) or not.
- Near-synonyms: cybermoney, cybercash, e-cash, digital money, e-money, electronic money
- State-backed digital currencies, issued by central banks, are under development in various countries.
- Synonyms:
- e-currency, electronic currency, virtual currency, cybercurrency, cybermoney, cybercash, e-cash, digital money, e-money, electronic money
digital currency meaning in Tamil and Arabic
digital currency in Tamil
- எண்ம நாணயம், அரசு சார்ப்பற்ற, பரவலாக்கப்பட்ட முறைப்படி
digital currency in Arabic
- any money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on computer systems
- عملة رقمية ʕumla raqmiyya
Examples of digital currency in a sentence
- The goal is let a person create a digital alter-ego that can travel to many virtual worlds, keeping the same name, look and even digital currency.2007 October 10, Steve Lohr, “Free the Avatars”, in New York Times Bits Blog:
- The Winklevosses say this week’s tumult is just growing pains for a digital currency that they believe will become a sort of gold for the technorati.2013 April 11, Nathaniel Popper, Peter Lattman, “Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money”, in New York Times:
Synonyms of digital currency
- e-currency
- electronic currency
- virtual currency
- cybercurrency
- cybermoney
- cybercash
- e-cash
- digital money
- e-money
- electronic money
Forms of digital currency
| plural | digital currencies |
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Questions about digital currency
- What does digital currency mean?
- Digital currency means any currency, money, or money-like asset that is primarily managed, stored or exchanged on computer systems, especially over the internet, and does not have a classical physical form of fiat currency that can be held in the hand. It may be either a cryptocurrency (involving blockchain and coin mining) or not.
- What is digital currency in Tamil?
- Digital currency in Tamil is எண்ம நாணயம், அரசு சார்ப்பற்ற, பரவலாக்கப்பட்ட முறைப்படி. See Digital currency meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use digital currency in a sentence?
- The goal is let a person create a digital alter-ego that can travel to many virtual worlds, keeping the same name, look and even digital currency.
- What part of speech is digital currency?
- Digital currency is a noun.
- What is the plural of digital currency?
- The plural of digital currency is digital currencies.
Words near digital currency in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: digital currency (page history and authors); digital currency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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