German

Noun

Dollar m ‎(genitive Dollar or Dollars, plural Dollars)

1. dollar

Usage notes

The plural is not used if the word is used as a currency unit and follows a number. Example: 20 Dollar

English

A one-dollar note (US), front and back.

Noun

dollar ‎(plural dollars)

1. Official designation for currency in some parts of the world, including Canada, Australia, the United States, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Its symbol is $.
2. (by extension) Money generally.
   • Marcella Ridlen Ray, Changing and Unchanging Face of United States Civil Society

     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.

3. (Britain, 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.
   • 1990 October 28, Paul Simon, “Born at the Right Time”, The Rhythm of the Saints, Warner Bros.

     We like to go down to restaurant row / Spend those euro-dollars / All the way from Washington to Tokyo

   • 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:

     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.

4. (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.)
   • 1952 Brigadier Sir Harry Mackeson, House of Commons, London; Hansard vol 504 col 271, 22 July 1952:

     The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco

   • 1956 The Spectator Vol.197 p.342:

     For there are two luxury imports that lead all the others : dollar films and dollar tobacco.

Coordinate terms

afghani, ariary, baht, balboa, birr, bitcoin, bolivar, boliviano, cedi, colon, cordoba, dalasi, dinar, dirham, dobra, dogecoin, dong, dram, escudo, euro, florin, forint, franc, gourde, guarani, guilder, hryvnia, kina, kip, koruna, krona/króna/kronor/krone, kuna, kwacha, kwanza, kyat, lari, lek, lempira, leone, leu, lev, lilangeni, lira, litas, Litecoin, manat, mark, markka, metical, naira, nakfa, ngultrum, ouguiya, paʻanga, pataca, peso, pound, pula, quetzal, rand, rial, rial/riyal, riel, ringgit, ruble, rufiyaa, rupee, rupiah, scudo, shekel, shilling, sol, som, somoni, sterling, taka, tala, tenge, togrog, vatu, won, yen, yuan, zloty

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• cent
• dale
• mill
• mille
• vale
• valley

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔlɑr/

Etymology

From English dollar, from early Dutch daler, daalder.

Noun

dollar m ‎(plural dollars, diminutive dollartje n)

1. dollar

Related terms

• daalder

French

Pronunciation

Noun

dollar m ‎(plural dollars)

1. dollar

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar

Noun

dollar m ‎(definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarene)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

References

• “dollar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Low German daler, via English dollar

Noun

dollar m ‎(definite singular dollaren, indefinite plural dollar, definite plural dollarane)

1. a dollar (monetary unit)

References

• “dollar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

dollar c

1. dollar

Declension