currency

1. 1.

   the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used

   Broadermedium of exchange

   NarrowermoneyEurocurrencycashhard currencypaper moneycoinage
2. 2.

   general acceptance or use

   “the currency of ideas”

   Broaderprevalence
3. 3.

   the property of belonging to the present time

   “the currency of a slang term”

   Synonymscurrentnessup-to-dateness

   Broaderpresentness

   Narrowermodernity

Other forms of currency

plural

currencies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about currency

What does currency mean?

currency means "the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in currency?

currency has 3 syllables: cur-ren-cy. The stress falls on "cur". In IPA it is /ˈkɝənsi/.

What is another word for currency?

Close synonyms include currentness, up-to-dateness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is currency a common word?

currency is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.