pound sterling

Questions about pound sterling

What is another word for pound sterling?

It depends which pound sterling you mean. In the sense “the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence”, the synonyms are British pound, pound, British pound sterling, quid. Across all 1 sense there are 4 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 pound sterling?

WordNet records no antonym for pound sterling. 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 pound sterling 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 pound sterling

• Full entry for pound sterlingAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pound sterlingWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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