| currency | |
| 1. n. Money or other items used to facilitate transactions. | |
| Wampum was used as a currency by Amerindians. | |
| 2. n. (more specifically) Paper money. | |
| 3. n. The state of being current; general acceptance or recognition. | |
| The jargon’s currency. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) fluency; readiness of utterance | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) Current value; general estimation; the rate at which anything is generally valued. | |
| He (...) takes greatness of kingdoms according to their bulk and currency, and not after intrinsic value. — Francis Bacon. | |
| The bare name of Englishman (...) too often gave a transient currency to the worthless and ungrateful. — W. Irving. | |
