Currency: Definition and part of speech

Currency

  1. n. Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued.
  2. n. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a stream; as, the currency of time.
  3. n. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; a passing from person to person, or from hand to hand; circulation; as, a report has had a long or general currency; the currency of bank notes.
  4. n. That which is in circulation, or is given and taken as having or representing value; as, the currency of a country; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
  5. n. Fluency; readiness of utterance.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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