dollar

Syllables: dol·lar/ˈdɒl.ə//ˈdɑ.lɚ/

dollar noun: official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.

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Noun

dollar (plural dollars)

Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
- 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.2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11
- 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!2015 November 22, “Pennies”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 35, John Oliver (actor), via HBO
Synonyms:

buck, smackeroo
(broadly) Money generally.
- 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.2002, Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society
(Malaysia, broadly, colloquial) A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia.
(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.
(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.)
- The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard, vol 504, col 271, 22 July 1952
- For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others: dollar films and dollar tobacco.1956, The Spectator, volume 197, page 342
(nuclear physics) A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

Proper noun capitalized: Dollar

Dollar (countable and uncountable, plural Dollars)

A small town in Clackmannanshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS9698)
An unincorporated community in Coosa County, Alabama, United States.
A former community in Ontario, Canada, now part of the city of Markham.
A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.
A surname.

dollar meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

dollar in Hindi

designation for specific currency: डॉलर ḍŏlar, डौलर ḍaular, डालर ḍālar

dollar in Tamil

designation for specific currency: டாலர் ṭālar

dollar in Marathi

designation for specific currency: डॉलर ḍŏlar

dollar in Urdu

designation for specific currency: ڈالَر ḍālar

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dollar in Bengali: ডলার ḍolar
dollar in Telugu: డాలర్ ḍālar
dollar in Malayalam: ഡോളർ ḍōḷaṟ
dollar in Kannada: ಡಾಲರ್ ḍālar
dollar in Punjabi: ਡਾਲਰ ḍālar
dollar in Gujarati: ડોલર ḍolar
dollar in Odia: ଡଲାର ḍalāra
dollar in Sinhala: ඩොලර් ḍolar
dollar in Assamese: ডলাৰ dolar
dollar in Nepali: डलर ḍalar
dollar in Pashto: دالر dālar, ډالر ḍālar
dollar in Tagalog: dolyar
dollar in Arabic: دُولَار dūlār
dollar in Malay: dolar
dollar in Indonesian: dolar
dollar in Thai: ดอลลาร์ dɔn-lâa, ดอล dɔn
dollar in Vietnamese: đồng, đô la, đô-la, đồng Mỹ
dollar in Myanmar: ဒေါ်လာ daula
Dhivehi: ޑޮލަރު ḍolaru

Examples of dollar in a sentence

Under color of law, he managed to bilk taxpayers of millions of dollars.
A cheque for zero dollars and zero cents crashed the computers on division by zero.
The company hopes to win an order from the government worth over 5 million dollars.

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Synonyms of dollar

Forms of dollar

Noun
plural	dollars
alternative form	dollah
alternative form	dolla'
Proper noun
plural	Dollars

Plural of dollar: dollars

Origin of dollar

Attested since the mid-16th century, from early Dutch daler, daalder, from German Taler, Thaler (“dollar”), earlier Joachimsthaler, literally “of Joachimstal”, the town where the original dollars were minted. The name means “(Saint) Joachim's valley”, from Joachim + Tal. Possibly reinforced by the Dutch leeuwendaalder, which was also used in the American colonies. Doublet of taler /thaler and tolar.

From Scottish Gaelic Dolair (in Scotland).

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Questions about dollar

What does dollar mean?: Dollar means official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
What is dollar in Hindi?: Dollar in Hindi is डॉलर (ḍŏlar), डौलर (ḍaular), डालर (ḍālar). See Dollar meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dollar?: Dollar can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce dollar?: Dollar is pronounced /ˈdɒl.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of dollar?: The plural of dollar is dollars.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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