paper currency

Questions about paper currency

What is another word for paper currency?

It depends which paper currency you mean. In the sense “currency issued by a government or central bank and consisting of printed paper that can circulate as a substitute for specie”, the synonyms are paper money, folding money. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of paper currency?

WordNet records no antonym for paper currency. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for paper currency come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of paper currency

• Full entry for paper currencyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for paper currencyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.