moneyed

adjective

mon·​eyed ˈmə-nēd How to pronounce moneyed (audio)
variants or less commonly monied
1
: having money : wealthy
2
: consisting in or derived from money

Examples of moneyed in a Sentence

a member of the moneyed classes luxury goods that are purchased mainly by moneyed tourists from abroad
Recent Examples on the Web In The Likeness, for instance, French was pitting moneyed college students living in a colossal Georgian house against a crumbling village. Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024 How passenger cars will fit into that moneyed future is yet to be determined. Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2024 Some preservationists point to the crumbling, submerged staircases of ancient palazzos to demonstrate that mass tourism — mostly the armadas of water taxis carrying moneyed visitors — is doing structural damage to Venice, compounding the eroding effects of tides and floods. Stefano Pitrelli, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024 As his apartment on the Lower East Side crumbled, a former Club Kid resented the moneyed millennials who filled his building. Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2024 Flush with cash from a recent series of public offerings in tech, a younger moneyed generation has taken that ethos even further. Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023 The two grew up in Bloomingdale when the neighborhood was a far less affluent place, overwhelmingly populated by working-class Black families like theirs, before waves of moneyed home-buyers supplanted them and revitalized the area. Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023 With the war also playing out as a fight over the competing narratives that hold sway in Gaza and Israel, moneyed donors to elite U.S. schools have sought to use their financial clout to dictate the debate on university campuses. Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023 That hasn’t stopped swarms of interest in the place, one of too few places to eat in a moneyed neighborhood. Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of moneyed was in the 15th century

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“Moneyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moneyed. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

moneyed

adjective
mon·​eyed
variants or monied
: having money : wealthy

Legal Definition

moneyed

adjective
mon·​eyed
ˈmə-nēd
: consisting in or derived from money
a moneyed obligation

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