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monier

monier is the alternative form of moneyer.

Meaning of moneyer

Noun

moneyer (plural moneyers)

  1. A minter: one who makes money, particularly (historical) the superintendent of a mint producing coinage.
    • As best they could, the imperial moneyers carved coin dies which imitated the coins of ancient Rome from half a millennium before.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 350
  2. (archaic) Synonym of moneylender, one who loans money to others at interest.
    Synonyms:
    moneylender, one who loans money to others at interest

Proper noun capitalized: Monier

Monier (plural Moniers)

  1. A surname.

Forms of monier

Noun
pluralmoniers
Proper noun
pluralMoniers

Origin of monier

* As a French surname, dialectal variant of Meunier (“miller”). Compare Monie, Monnier. * Also as a French surname, variant of Monnier (“minter”). * As an English surname, from the noun moneyer, or borrowed from the French. Compare Money, Minter.

Questions about monier

What does monier mean?
Monier means a surname.
What is monier the alternative form of?
Monier is the alternative form of moneyer.
What part of speech is monier?
Monier is a proper noun.

Words near monier in the dictionary

  1. Monico
  2. Monicos
  3. monics
  4. monie
  5. monied
  6. monier
  7. moniers
  8. monies
  9. monies of account
  10. Monifieth
  11. monigar

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Adapted from Wiktionary: monier (page history and authors); Monier (page history and authors); moneyer (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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