hearth money

1. 1.

   an annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the papal see

   SynonymsPeter's pence

   Broaderoffering

Questions about hearth money

What does hearth money mean?

hearth money means "an annual contribution made by Roman Catholics to support the papal see".

What is another word for hearth money?

Close synonyms include Peter's pence. 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 hearth money a common word?

hearth money is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.