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banknote

noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋknəʊ̯t/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbæŋkˌnɵ̞ʊ̯t/
  • General-American: /ˈbæŋkˌnoʊ̯t/ without æ-raising
  • General-American: /ˈbæŋkˌnɔʊ̯t/ without æ-raising
  • /ˈbeɪ̯ŋkˌnoʊ̯t/ æ-raising
  • /ˈbeɪ̯ŋkˌnɔʊ̯t/ æ-raising
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: B AE1 NG K N OW2 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A piece of currency made of paper or polymer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • Near-synonym: paper money

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: note, bill, flimsy, long-tailed one, paper money

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A promissory note issued by a bank, payable at a given time to a specific beneficiary.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: historical

Examples

  • Near-synonym: bank paper

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bank paper

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: promissory note, note

3

noun

Meaning 3

a piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: bill, note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, Federal Reserve note, greenback

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: paper money, folding money, paper currency

Narrower terms: silver certificate, hundred dollar bill, c-note, fifty dollar bill, fifty, twenty dollar bill, twenty, tenner, ten dollar bill, fiver, five-spot, five dollar bill, two dollar bill, dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam

History

Etymology

From bank + note.

Across languages

Translations

143 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: bankbiljet — paper or polymer currency
  • Albanian: bankënotë — paper or polymer currency
  • Arabic: بَنْكْنُوت (banknōt) — paper or polymer currency
  • Arabic: وَرَقَة نَقْدِيَّة (waraqa naqdiyya) — paper or polymer currency
  • Armenian: թղթադրամ (tʻġtʻadram) — paper or polymer currency
  • Asturian: billete — paper or polymer currency
  • Azerbaijani: əsginaz — paper or polymer currency
  • Azerbaijani: banknot — paper or polymer currency
  • Bashkir: банкнот (banknot) — paper or polymer currency
  • Bashkir: купюра (kupyura) — paper or polymer currency
  • Bashkir: ҡағыҙ аҡса (qağıź aqsa) — paper or polymer currency
  • Belarusian: банкно́та (banknóta) — paper or polymer currency
  • Belarusian: купю́ра (kupjúra) — paper or polymer currency
  • Bengali: ব্যাংকনোট (bêṅkonōṭ) — paper or polymer currency
  • Bulgarian: банкно́та (banknóta) — paper or polymer currency
  • Bulgarian: купю́ра (kupjúra) — paper or polymer currency
  • Burmese: ငွေစက္ကူ (ngwecakku) — paper or polymer currency
  • Catalan: bitllet — paper or polymer currency
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鈔票 /钞票 (chāopiào) — paper or polymer currency
  • Chinese Mandarin: 莊票 /庄票 (zhuāngpiào) — paper or polymer currency
  • Chinese Mandarin: 紙幣 /纸币 (zhǐbì) — paper or polymer currency
  • Czech: bankovka — paper or polymer currency
  • Danish: pengeseddel — paper or polymer currency
  • Dutch: bankbiljet — paper or polymer currency
  • Dutch: biljet — paper or polymer currency
  • Esperanto: monbileto — paper or polymer currency
  • Esperanto: banknoto — paper or polymer currency
  • Estonian: paberraha — paper or polymer currency
  • Faroese: seðil — paper or polymer currency
  • Faroese: pengaseðil — paper or polymer currency
  • Faroese: bankaseðil — paper or polymer currency
  • Finnish: seteli — paper or polymer currency
  • French: billet de banque — paper or polymer currency
  • French: billet — paper or polymer currency
  • French: biffeton — paper or polymer currency
  • Fula: 𞤳𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤮𞤤 — paper or polymer currency
  • Fula: kaakol — paper or polymer currency
  • Galician: billete — paper or polymer currency
  • Georgian: ბანკნოტი (banḳnoṭi) — paper or polymer currency
  • German: Geldschein — paper or polymer currency
  • German: Banknote — paper or polymer currency
  • German: Schein — paper or polymer currency
  • Greek: χαρτονόμισμα (chartonómisma) — paper or polymer currency
  • Hebrew: שְׁטָר (shtar) — paper or polymer currency
  • Hindi: नोट (noṭ) — paper or polymer currency
  • Hindi: बैंक के नोट (baiṅk ke noṭ) — paper or polymer currency
  • Hungarian: bankjegy — paper or polymer currency
  • Hungarian: papírpénz — paper or polymer currency
  • Icelandic: peningaseðill — paper or polymer currency
  • Indonesian: uang kertas — paper or polymer currency
  • Interlingua: nota de banca — paper or polymer currency
  • Irish: nóta bainc — paper or polymer currency
  • Irish: bille — paper or polymer currency
  • Irish: bille bainc — paper or polymer currency
  • Italian: banconota — paper or polymer currency
  • Italian: biglietto — paper or polymer currency
  • Italian: denaro — paper or polymer currency
  • Italian: cartamoneta — paper or polymer currency
  • Japanese: 紙幣 (shihei) — paper or polymer currency
  • Japanese: 札 (satsu) — paper or polymer currency
  • Japanese: 銀行券 (ginkōken) — paper or polymer currency
  • Kazakh: банкнот (banknot) — paper or polymer currency
  • Khmer: ធនប័ត្រ (thŭən bat) — paper or polymer currency
  • Korean: 지폐 (jipye) — paper or polymer currency
  • Korean: 은행권 (eunhaenggwon) — paper or polymer currency
  • Northern Kurdish: banknot — paper or polymer currency
  • Kyrgyz: банкнот (banknot) — paper or polymer currency
  • Lao: ທະນະບັດ (tha na bat) — paper or polymer currency
  • Lao: ທະນາບັດ (tha nā bat) — paper or polymer currency
  • Lao: ແບ້ງ (bǣng) — paper or polymer currency
  • Lao: ເງິນເຈັ້ຽ (ngœn chīa) — paper or polymer currency
  • Latin: charta argentaria — paper or polymer currency
  • Latvian: banknote — paper or polymer currency
  • Lithuanian: banknotas — paper or polymer currency
  • Luhya: enoti — paper or polymer currency
  • Luxembourgish: Geldschäin — paper or polymer currency
  • Luxembourgish: Billjee — paper or polymer currency
  • Macedonian: банкно́та (banknóta) — paper or polymer currency
  • Malay: wang kertas — paper or polymer currency
  • Malay: nota bank — paper or polymer currency
  • Malay: duit kertas — paper or polymer currency
  • Māori: nōti — paper or polymer currency
  • Māori: moni pepa — paper or polymer currency
  • Māori: moni pukapuka — paper or polymer currency
  • Māori: monipuka — paper or polymer currency
  • Meru: nnoti — paper or polymer currency
  • Mongolian: мөнгөн дэвсгэрт (möngön devsgert) — paper or polymer currency
  • Nepali: नोट (noṭ) — paper or polymer currency
  • Ngarrindjeri: pu:thi — paper or polymer currency
  • Nivkh: кумуск (kumusk) — paper or polymer currency
  • Norwegian Bokmål: seddel — paper or polymer currency
  • Norwegian Bokmål: pengeseddel — paper or polymer currency
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: setel — paper or polymer currency
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: pengesetel — paper or polymer currency
  • Occitan: bilhet — paper or polymer currency
  • Pali: dhanapaṇṇa — paper or polymer currency
  • Iranian Persian: اِسْکِناس (eskenâs) — paper or polymer currency
  • Polish: banknot — paper or polymer currency
  • Portuguese: cédula — paper or polymer currency
  • Portuguese: nota — paper or polymer currency
  • Romanian: bancnotă — paper or polymer currency
  • Romanian: bilet de bancă — paper or polymer currency
  • Romanian: hârtie de bancă — paper or polymer currency
  • Russian: банкно́та (banknóta) — paper or polymer currency
  • Russian: купю́ра (kupjúra) — paper or polymer currency
  • Russian: банкно́т (banknót) — paper or polymer currency
  • Russian: биле́т (bilét) — paper or polymer currency
  • Russian: ассигна́ция (assignácija) — paper or polymer currency
  • Sanskrit: धनपत्र (dhanapatra) — paper or polymer currency
  • Scottish Gaelic: not — paper or polymer currency
  • Scottish Gaelic: nota — paper or polymer currency
  • Serbo-Croatian: новча̀ница — paper or polymer currency
  • Serbo-Croatian: банкно́та — paper or polymer currency
  • Serbo-Croatian: novčànica — paper or polymer currency
  • Serbo-Croatian: banknóta — paper or polymer currency
  • Slovak: bankovka — paper or polymer currency
  • Slovene: bankovec — paper or polymer currency
  • Southern Altai: купюра (kupyura) — paper or polymer currency
  • Spanish: billete — paper or polymer currency
  • Swahili: noti — paper or polymer currency
  • Swedish: sedel — paper or polymer currency
  • Tajik: пули қоғазӣ (pul-i qoġazi) — paper or polymer currency
  • Thai: ธนบัตร (tá-ná-bàt) — paper or polymer currency
  • Thai: แบงก์ (bɛ́ng) — paper or polymer currency
  • Turkish: banknot — paper or polymer currency
  • Turkish: kayme — paper or polymer currency
  • Turkish: kaime — paper or polymer currency
  • Turkish: papel — paper or polymer currency
  • Ottoman Turkish: بانقنوط (banknot) — paper or polymer currency
  • Turkmen: banknot — paper or polymer currency
  • Ukrainian: банкно́та (banknóta) — paper or polymer currency
  • Ukrainian: купю́ра (kupjúra) — paper or polymer currency
  • Urdu: نوٹ (noṭ) — paper or polymer currency
  • Urdu: رُقْعَہ مَصْرَف (ruq'a masraf) — paper or polymer currency
  • Urdu: بَینْک نوٹ (baiṅk noṭ) — paper or polymer currency
  • Uyghur: قەغەز پۇل (qeghez pul) — paper or polymer currency
  • Uzbek: banknot — paper or polymer currency
  • Uzbek: kupyura — paper or polymer currency
  • Vietnamese: giấy bạc — paper or polymer currency
  • Welsh: papur punt — paper or polymer currency
  • Yiddish: באַנקנאָטע (banknote) — paper or polymer currency
  • Yiddish: אַסיגנאַציע (asignatsye) — paper or polymer currency
  • Yiddish: סיגנאַציע (signatsye) — paper or polymer currency
Real reading context

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