pound sign

1. 1.

   a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)

   Synonymspound

   Broadersymbol

Questions about pound sign

What does pound sign mean?

pound sign means "a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain)".

What is another word for pound sign?

Close synonyms include pound. 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 pound sign a common word?

pound sign 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.