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MAMMON/ - 7 definitions found
Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Mammon \Mam"mon\, n. [L. mammona, Gr. ? riches, Syr. mam?n[=a]; cf. Heb. matm?n a hiding place, subterranean storehouse, treasury, fr. t[=a]man to hide.] Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. Ye can not serve God and Mammon. --Matt. vi. 24. Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary Mammon a Chaldee or Syriac word meaning "wealth" or "riches" (Luke 16:9-11); also, by personification, the god of riches (Matt. 6:24; Luke 16:9-11). Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) Mammon, riches Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms mammon n. 1. Syrian god of riches. 2. Riches, wealth. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 63 Moby Thesaurus words for "mammon": affluence, and pence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse, cash, circulating medium, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, currency, dollars, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, emergency money, filthy lucre, fortune, fractional currency, gold, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, independence, legal tender, lucre, luxuriousness, managed currency, material wealth, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money to burn, moneybags, necessity money, opulence, opulency, pelf, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, property, prosperity, prosperousness, riches, richness, scrip, shillings, silver, six-figure income, soft currency, specie, sterling, substance, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasure, upper bracket, wealth, wealthiness |
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