dollar

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈdɒl.ə/|/ˈdɔː.lə/    美 /ˈdɑ.lɚ/|/ˈdɔl.ə/|/ˈdɒl.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. Money generally. broadly
    — 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. A ringgit, a unit of currency in Malaysia. Malaysia,broadly,colloquial
  4. 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. UK,colloquial,historical
  5. 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.) attributive,historical
    — The restricted purchase of dollar tobacco will, we hope, have the effect of increasing the imports of Turkish and Grecian tobacco
  6. A unit of reactivity equal to the interval between delayed criticality and prompt criticality.

词形变化

dollars plural dollah alternative dolla' alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
a day late and a dollar short agridollar almighty dollar American dollar antidollar Asiadollar AUD Aussie dollar Australian dollar Belize dollar bet a dime to a dollar bet a dollar to a dime bet a dollar to a donut bet a dollar to a doughnut bet one's bottom dollar billion-dollar grass billion-dollar question billion dollar question bottom dollar bright as a new dollar BZD CAD Canadian dollar Carolus dollar cents on the dollar chop dollar cyberdollar dollar-aire dollaraire dollar-and-cent dollar auction dollar-a-year man dollar bean the dollar bean dollar bill dollarbird dollarbuck dollar-cost averaging dollar cost averaging dollar dance dollar day dollar decade dollar democracy dollar diplomacy dollardom dollared dollarette dollarfish dollarisation dollarization dollarize dollarless dollarocracy dollar of our daddies dollar of the daddies dollar out Dollar Point dollar princess dollarship dollar sign dollar-sign eyes dollar-speaking dollar store dollar-store dollar up dollar van dollar voting dollarwise dollarydoo Dorothy dollar ecodollar Eurodollar five-dollar word half-a-dollar half-dollar high dollar HKD holey dollar Hong Kong dollar hotter than a two dollar pistol hundred-dollar hamburger hundred-dollar word junk dollar Kiwi dollar le dollar bean like a million dollars lollar low dollar make a dollar out of fifteen cents megadollar memento dollar mighty dollar migradollar million-dollar million dollar question million-dollar question Morgan dollar narcodollar New Taiwan dollar New Zealand dollar nondollar one-dollar man peace dollar pennies on the dollar petrodollar phony as a three-dollar bill pillar dollar pink dollar Pokédollar rix-dollar Sacagawea dollar sand dollar sea dollar silver dollar silver dollar fish Singapore dollar single as a dollar bill sixty-four dollar question sixty-four thousand dollar question so-called dollar sound as a dollar Straits dollar superdollar sword dollar Taiwan dollar ten-dollar word that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee top dollar trade dollar two-dollar shop two-dollar word USD U.S. dollar US dollar wager a dollar to a donut wager a dollar to a doughnut xenodollar Zimbabwean dollar
相关词
cent dale mill mille vale valley

词源

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *dalą
Proto-West Germanic *dal
Old High German tal
Middle High German tal
German Tal
German Talerder.
Middle Low German dālerbor.
Dutch dalerbor.
English 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.
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