Sterling
['stɜːlɪŋ] or ['stɝlɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK.
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Definition
(n.) Same as Starling, 3.
(n.) Any English coin of standard value; coined money.
(n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.
(a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.
(a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Genuine, pure, true, real, substantial, positive.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sound, substantial, unalloyed, pure, unadulterated, standard, genuine,essential, solid
ANT:Fictitious, ungenuine, ascititious, specious, pretentious, ostensible,plausible
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Definition
adj. a designation of British money—pure genuine of good quality—also generally of value or excellence authoritative.
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Examples
- Sixteen shillings sterling, we are told by Mr Byron, was the price of a good horse in the capital of Chili. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- He thinks I am perfect: furnished with all sorts of sterling qualities and solid virtues, such as I never had, nor intend to have. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- On the 13th of September General Sterling Price entered Iuka, a town about twenty miles east of Corinth on the Memphis and Charleston railroad. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The silver thus deposited, is absolutely pure--finer, in fact, than any articles of sterling silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1723, the whole importation from Britain to Pennsylvania was but about ?15,000 sterling; it is now near half a million. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The value of the paper thus produced is calculated to exceed two millions sterling. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The whole value of the gold and silver, therefore, which circulated in Scotland before the Union, cannot be estimated at less than a million sterling. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The person who works the lace of a pair of fine ruffles for example, will sometimes raise the value of, perhaps, a pennyworth of flax to ?30 sterling. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It replaced in many households pewter ware which, until the introduction of Sheffield plate, was the best substitute for sterling silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Three sestertii equal to about sixpence sterling, was the price which the republic paid for the modius or peck of the tithe wheat of Sicily. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Pope and Edison invented a one-wire printer, and started a system of 'gold printers' devoted to the recording of gold quotations and sterling exchange only. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Blandois' drafts at sight to the extent of, say Fifty Pounds sterling (50_l_. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You speak of that annuity in pounds sterling, but it is in reality so many pounds of beefsteaks and so many pints of porter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When their master has occasion for their labour, he gives them, besides, two pecks of oatmeal a-week, worth about sixteen pence sterling. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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