Sterling

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English

Noun

Sterling (uncountable)
  1. the currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound
  2. former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness: for gold 0.91666 and for silver 0.925.
  3. sterling silver, or articles made from this material

Adjective

Sterling (not comparable)

  1. of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage
  2. of, relating to, or made from sterling silver
  3. high quality

Thesaurus

Christian, admirable, and pence, authentic, blameless, bona fide, candid, capital, card-carrying, cash, circulating medium, clean, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, creditable, currency, decent, dinkum, divine, dollars, emergency money, erect, estimable, ethical, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fair, filthy lucre, financial, fine, first-class, fiscal, following the letter, fractional currency, full of integrity, genuine, gilt-edged, glorious, gold, golden, good, hard cash, hard currency, heavenly, high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest, honest-to-God, honorable, immaculate, immense, inartificial, incomparable, inviolate, irreproachable, just, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lawful, legal tender, legitimate, lifelike, literal, lucre, magnificent, mammon, managed currency, manly, marvelous, matchless, medium of exchange, mintage, monetary, money, moral, natural, naturalistic, necessity money, noble, nonpareil, numismatic, nummary, original, pecuniary, peerless, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, principled, pure, real, realistic, reputable, respectable, right, right-minded, righteous, rightful, scrip, sensational, shillings, silver, simon-pure, simple, sincere, soft currency, specie, splendid, splendiferous, spotless, stainless, sumptuary, super, superb, supereminent, superexcellent, superfine, superior, superlative, sure-enough, terrific, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, tremendous, true, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true-dealing, true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, unblemished, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, uncounterfeited, undefiled, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, unimpeachable, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unsynthetic, untarnished, unvarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, very good, virtuous, wonderful, word-for-word, worthy, yeomanly

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA: /ˈstɜː(ɹ).lɪŋ/, SAMPA: /"st3:(r).lIN/
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(r)lɪŋ

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