dollar sign

dol·lar sign

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [dol-er sahyn]
- /ˈdɒl ər saɪn/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [dol-er sahyn]
- /ˈdɒl ər saɪn/

Definitions of dollar sign words

noun dollar sign the symbol $ before a number indicating that the number represents dollars. 1
noun dollar sign punctuation symbol ($ ), used to indicate a price in dollars 0
noun dollar sign a symbol ($) for dollar or dollars 0
noun dollar sign punctuation symbol $, used to indicate a price in dollars. 0
noun dollar sign (programming) in certain languages (such as Perl or PHP), to indicate a variable. 0
noun dollar sign (programming) in certain languages, used to indicate a hexadecimal constant. 0

See all 9 definitions of dollar sign

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Origin of dollar sign

First appearance:

before 1855

One of the 30% newest English words

An Americanism dating back to 1855-60

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Dollar sign

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Dollar sign

dollar sign popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 31% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

dollar sign usage trend in Literature

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