bank
Pronunciation: /bɑŋk/
“bank” is a Dutch word. Its 8 meanings in English:
noun
- bench
- couch, sofa
- place where seashells are found
- shallow part of the sea near the coast
- a bank (financial institution)
- the bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games and in gambling
- a banknote, especially 100 Dutch guilders (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
- a bank, collection and/or repository
Etymology
From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.
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