bank
English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). More at bench.
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
- Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. […] Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
- A branch office of such an institution.
- An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.
- Synonym: banker
- A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.
- (Can we date this quote by Francis Bacon and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (gambling) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
- (slang, uncountable) money; profit
- 2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:
- Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.
- In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
- A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
- A device used to store coins or currency.
- If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
Derived terms
- antibank
- bad bank
- bank acceptance
- bank account
- bank agent
- bank annuities
- bank balance
- bank bill
- bank book, bankbook
- bank card, bankcard
- bank charge
- bank cheque
- bank clerk
- bank court
- bank credit
- bank discount
- bank draft
- Bank Giro, bank giro
- Bank Holiday, bank holiday
- bank interest
- bank job
- banklike
- bank loan
- bank machine
- bank manager
- bank mix
- bank money
- bank night
- bank note, banknote
- bankocracy
- Bank of Canada
- Bank of China
- bank of deposit
- Bank of England
- bank of issue
- bank of mum and dad
- bank paper
- bank parlour
- bank post
- bank rate
- bank receipt
- bank reserves
- bank robber
- bank robbery
- bankroll
- bank run
- bank statement
- bankster
- bank stock
- bank switching
- bank token
- bank transfer
- bankward
- Barclays Bank
- biobank
- blood bank
- bottle bank
- branch bank
- break the bank
- central bank
- clearing bank
- coin bank
- commercial bank
- cry all the way to the bank
- cryobank
- cyberbank
- data bank, databank
- egg bank
- Eurobank
- European Central Bank
- eye bank, eyebank
- food bank
- gene bank
- in bank
- interbank
- intrabank
- investment bank
- joint-stock bank
- land bank, landbank
- laugh all the way to the bank
- mechanical bank
- megabank
- memory bank
- merchant bank
- microbank
- mudbank
- multibank
- national bank
- netbank
- nonbank
- overbanked
- penny bank
- phone bank
- photobank
- piggy bank
- powerbank
- prime bank
- private bank
- reserve bank
- run on the bank
- savings bank
- seed bank
- shadow bank
- soundbank
- spank bank
- sperm bank
- state bank
- superbank
- Swiss bank
- take to the bank
- time bank, timebank
- treebank
- trustee savings bank
- voicebank
- vote bank
- wank bank
- World Bank
- zombie bank
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Verb
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
- He banked with Barclays.
- (transitive) To put into a bank.
- I'm going to bank the money.
- (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
- Johnny banked some coke for me.
Derived terms
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Etymology 2
Middle English banke, from Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Tiber trembled underneath her banks.
- 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:
- Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank.
- (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
- the banks of Newfoundland
- (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
- (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
- (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
- A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
- The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
- (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
- (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
- (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.
- Ores are brought to bank.
Derived terms
- bank and bank
- bank beaver
- bank cress
- bank-fish
- bank fishing
- bankhead
- bank-high
- bank-hook
- banking
- bankless
- bankline
- bank-martin
- bank pool
- bankside
- banksman
- bank swallow
- bank up
- bank vole
- banky
- beetle bank
- clay-bank
- cloud bank
- Clydebank
- creekbank
- Cut Bank
- cutbank
- Dogger Bank
- earthbank
- embank
- Eskbank
- fog bank, fogbank
- footbank
- Grand Banks
- hedgebank
- Hest Bank
- imbank
- Jodrell Bank
- left bank
- mole-bank
- overbank
- oyster bank, oysterbank
- peat bank
- right bank
- river bank, riverbank
- sandbank
- seabank
- snowbank
- spoil bank
- stopbank
- streambank
- turf bank
- Tweedbank
- unbank
- warping bank
- West Bank
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Verb
bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
- (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
- (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
- to bank sand
- (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
- (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
- (Can we date this quote by Holland and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- banked well with earth
- (Can we date this quote by Holland and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John, Act 5, Scene 2:
- Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?
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Etymology 3
From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
- a bank of switches
- a bank of pay phones
- 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders.
- A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
Synonyms
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bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)
- (transitive, order and arrangement) To arrange or order in a row.
Etymology 4
Probably from French banc. Of German origin, and akin to English bench.
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
- (Can we date this quote by Waller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.
- (Can we date this quote by Waller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- A bench or seat for judges in court.
- The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)
- (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
- (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
- (uncountable) slang for money
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Anagrams
Crimean Tatar
Noun
bank (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
- bank (financial institution)
Declension
nominative | bank |
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genitive | banknıñ |
dative | bankqa |
accusative | banknı |
locative | bankta |
ablative | banktan |
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).
Noun
bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)
- bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
bank c
- only used in certain expressions
Derived terms
Noun
bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)
Declension
Synonyms
Verb
bank
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank m or f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)
- bank (financial institution)
- bench
- (Netherlands) couch, sofa
- Synonym: sofa
- place where seashells are found
- shallow part of the sea near the coast
- 100 Dutch guilders banknote (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
- (games) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games
Derived terms
Descendants
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Bank, from Italian banca.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
bank (plural bankok)
- bank (financial institution)
- Synonym: pénzintézet
- (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | bank | bankok |
accusative | bankot | bankokat |
dative | banknak | bankoknak |
instrumental | bankkal | bankokkal |
causal-final | bankért | bankokért |
translative | bankká | bankokká |
terminative | bankig | bankokig |
essive-formal | bankként | bankokként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | bankban | bankokban |
superessive | bankon | bankokon |
adessive | banknál | bankoknál |
illative | bankba | bankokba |
sublative | bankra | bankokra |
allative | bankhoz | bankokhoz |
elative | bankból | bankokból |
delative | bankról | bankokról |
ablative | banktól | bankoktól |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
banké | bankoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
bankéi | bankokéi |
Possessive forms of bank | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | bankom | bankjaim |
2nd person sing. | bankod | bankjaid |
3rd person sing. | bankja | bankjai |
1st person plural | bankunk | bankjaink |
2nd person plural | bankotok | bankjaitok |
3rd person plural | bankjuk | bankjaik |
Derived terms
(Compound words):
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References
- ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN
Icelandic
Etymology
Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)
Declension
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch bank (“bank”). See also bank.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank
- bank, an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
- bank, a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Maltese
Etymology
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Noun
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Noun
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Middle English
Noun
bank (plural banks)
- the bank of a river or lake
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From the verb banke
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Verb
bank
References
- “bank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “bank_4” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “bank_5” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.
Pronunciation
Noun
bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)
- a bank (financial institution)
Derived terms
References
- “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old High German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun
bank f
Descendants
Polish
Etymology
From Italian banco, from German Bank.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
bank m inan
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “bank”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna: “z włosk. banco, ‘stół wekslarski’, a to z niem. Bank;”
Further reading
Slovene
Noun
bánk
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
Noun
bank c
- a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
- a bank (place of storage)
- a bank (of a river of lake)
- a sandbank
Declension
Declension of bank | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bank | banken | banker | bankerna |
Genitive | banks | bankens | bankers | bankernas |
Derived terms
References
Turkish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)
- bench (long seat)
Declension
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | bank | |
Definite accusative | bankı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | bank | banklar |
Definite accusative | bankı | bankları |
Dative | banka | banklara |
Locative | bankta | banklarda |
Ablative | banktan | banklardan |
Genitive | bankın | bankların |
Volapük
Noun
bank (nominative plural banks)
- bank (financial institution)
Declension
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- Requests for date/Francis Bacon
- en:Gambling
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- en:Music
- Requests for quotations/Knight
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- en:Banking
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- hu:Gambling
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- hu:Buildings
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- Rhymes:Icelandic/auŋ̊k
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- Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch
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- Middle English lemmas
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