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bank en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbɛŋk/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbæŋk] (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ (Canada, US)
• [ˈbaŋk] (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• /ˈbaŋk/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• (US) audio
• [ˈbɛŋk] (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbæŋk/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bankiz Proto-West Germanic *banki Lombardic bankbor. Italian bancabor. Middle French banqueder. English bank Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco. For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).

Meanings

1. (countable) An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
   • Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”. 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
2. (countable) A branch office of such an institution.
3. (countable) An underwriter or controller of a card game.
4. (countable) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
   • Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usury”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
5. (countable) The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
6. (slang, uncountable) Money; profit.
   • Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money. 2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment, page 113:
7. (countable) In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. (countable, in-compounds) A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
   • blood bank; data bank; sperm bank
9. (countable) A device used to store coins or currency.
   • If you want to buy a bicycle, you need to put the money in your piggy bank.
10. (countable) A collection of instrument data on a digital synthesizer.
    • All of the drum kits are on bank 1.

Forms

Deriveds

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repository; etc)) · private bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · piggy bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank paper (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · trading bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · superbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · European Central Bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Fairbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · voicebank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · soundbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank reserves (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · letter bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank stock (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank job (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank draft (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank switching (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · netbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · in bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · blood bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankerage (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank statement (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · land bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · treebank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · potbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank roll (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · photobank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank manager (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Russian Bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · landbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · state bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · safe as the Bank of England (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank money (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · powerbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · claybank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · overbanked (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank-robber (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · spank bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank robbery (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank rate (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · diaper bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · shadow bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankster (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Bankhead (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · World Bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank giro (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · microbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · vote bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · gene bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · testbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank robber (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · retail bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank bill (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank post (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · egg bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · interbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · universal bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · savings bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · databank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · merchant bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · prime bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank transfer (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank interest (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · branch bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankroll (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · nonbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · load bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · railbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · e-bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank discount (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank slip (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankocracy (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank-a-ball (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank night (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · cuss bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Fairbanks (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank run (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · unbanked (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · banklike (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankbook (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankfull (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · favor bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · banknote (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · cyberbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Eurobank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · eyebank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank clerk (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bottle bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · gold bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · megabank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · central bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · cryobank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank note (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · biobank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · serobank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · de-bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · mutual savings bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · autobank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · laugh all the way to the bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · neobank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank court (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · make bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · mechanical bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank token (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankful (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankward (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank receipt (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank card (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · investment bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · nappy bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · national bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank of deposit (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank effect (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Barclays Bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bad bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · member bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · court in bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · paper bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank parlour (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Brooksbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · sperm bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · food bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Stonebank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · commercial bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · trunkback (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · run on the bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Bank Giro (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank-bursting (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank charge (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · narrow bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank craps (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · break the bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Swiss bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · zombie bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · wildcat bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · reserve bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · codbank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · coin bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · penny bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank machine (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · eye bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · pay by bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · time bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · warm bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank credit (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · wank bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank of mum and dad (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · DINB (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank account (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank mix (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · data bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · power bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · timebank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · savings-bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · challenger bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · antibank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · take to the bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank cheque (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bancorporation (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · at the bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bankcard (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · multibank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · pig bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · baby bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · seed bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · heat bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · memory bank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · bank holiday (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · intrabank (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc)) · Bank Holiday (Terms derived from bank (noun: financial institution; repository; etc))

Descendants

バンク · benk · வங்கி · bank · बैंक · বেংক · baqe · panakō · பாங்கி · pēke · banki · mbengi · బ్యాంకు · ব্যাংক · mbengi · બેંક · बँक · بَینْک · banggu · ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ · banki · แบงก์ · banki · bank · pangikē · banc · bang · ဘဏ် · ਬੈਂਕ · banki · बैंक · benki · mpenk · ebank · bankë · bengi · بینک · beng · bangi · baaengk

Relateds

bankrupt · banco · bancassurance

Synonyms

banque · banker · Lombard house

Translations (315)

ota صرافخانه (institution) · nb bank (storage for important goods) · yi באַנק (institution) · rsk банка (institution) · gcr bank (institution) · af bank (fund used in transacting business) · la argentāria (institution) · da -bank (storage for important goods) · bg банк (branch office) · sa धनागार (institution) · ru склад (storage for important goods) · ro bancă (institution) · az صرافخانه (institution) · lv banka (institution) · ru банк (storage for important goods) · pl bank (institution) · gd taigh-rèidh (institution) · eu banketxe (branch office) · cy banc (institution) · br ti-bank (branch office) · or ବାଙ୍କ୍ (institution) · cdo 銀行 /银行 (institution) · ru банкомёт (controller of a card game) · eo banko (institution) · fi pankki (controller of a card game) · uk банк (institution) · mer mbengi (institution) · sh банка (branch office) · sl banka (branch office) · vo bank (institution) · pl bank (storage for important goods) · it banco (institution) · sq bankë (institution) · sk bank (gambling: banker's funds) · ja 支店 (branch office) · my ဘဏ် (institution) · mk ба́нка (branch office) · ur بَینْک (institution) · az sərrafxana (institution) · srn bangi (institution) · pdt Bank (institution) · cs banka (storage for important goods) · af bank (fund of pieces to draw from) · mn банк (institution) · ast banca (institution) · sh ба̀нка (institution) · ja バンク (institution) · ca magatzem (storage for important goods) · km ធនាគារ (institution) · fi säästöpossu (device used to store coins or currency) · ota بانك (institution) · hu bank (institution) · crh bank (branch office) · hil talagoan-pilak (institution) · te బ్యాంకు (institution) · ml ബാങ്ക് (institution) · sh banka (branch office) · nb bank (institution) · ca banc (branch office) · ca banc (storage for important goods) · is banki (institution) · pt banco (institution) · ast bancu (branch office) · el υποκατάστημα (branch office) · cs bank (gambling: banker's funds) · da bankfilial (branch office) · vi nhà băng (institution) · apw zhááli bikih (institution) · ta வங்கி (storage for important goods) · af banktak (branch office) · sk banka (institution) · ia banca (institution) · cs banka (institution) · es banca (institution) · ky банк (institution) · pl bank (branch office) · zdj banki (institution) · cs pokladnička (device used to store coins or currency) · et pank (institution) · th กระปุกออมสิน (device used to store coins or currency) · ne बैंक (institution) · mn ᠪᠠᠩᠬᠢ (institution) · bn ব্যাংক (institution) · sl banka (institution) · bi bang (institution) · et pank (branch office) · de Bank (storage for important goods) · rm banca (institution) · ce банк (institution) · el τράπεζα (branch office) · za ngaenzhangz (institution) · ia banca (branch office) · fy bank (branch office) · rue ба́нка (institution) · dsb banka (institution) · ta வைப்பகம் (storage for important goods) · ga banc (institution) · kl banki (institution) · pt banqueiro (controller of a card game) · ff banki (institution) · cs banka (branch office) · gd taigh-malairt (institution) · pt banco (branch office) · khb ᦷᦣᧂᦵᦍᦇᦹᧃ (institution) · sco baunk (institution) · af bank (storage for important goods) · zh 銀行 /银行 (institution) · lt bankas (institution) · ti ባንክ (institution) · ar مَصْرِف (institution) · bg храни́лище (storage for important goods) · pl bank (fund of pieces to draw from) · es sucursal (branch office) · zh 銀行 /银行 (branch office) · tl bangko (institution) · dtp bank (institution) · ja 銀行 (branch office) · mel beng (institution) · shn ယေးငိုၼ်း (institution) · he בַּנְק (institution) · ko 은행 (branch office) · jv bang (institution) · hy դրամատուն (institution) · hak 銀行 /银行 (institution) · es banca (controller of a card game) · si බැංකුව (institution) · hi बैंक (institution) · ko 은행 (institution) · el τράπεζα (institution) · ur مَصْرِف (institution) · ia banca (storage for important goods) · ug بانكا (institution) · mn ᠪᠠᠩᠺᠢ (institution) · fy bank (institution) · crh bank (institution) · ru банк (gambling: banker's funds) · gd banca (institution) · esu akiliurvik (institution) · fr banque (branch office) · pt cofre (device used to store coins or currency) · dsb banka (branch office) · scn succursali (branch office) · cjy 銀行 /银行 (institution) · scn caruseḍḍu (device used to store coins or currency) · gl banca (institution) · az bank (institution) · ty fare moni (institution) · tpi haus moni (institution) · fi pankki (institution) · lkt mázaska thípi (institution) · mhn pònk (institution) · ca guardiola (device used to store coins or currency) · ha banki (institution) · pt banco (storage for important goods) · scn vancu (institution) · pt monte (fund of pieces to draw from) · scn vancu (controller of a card game) · om baankii (institution) · ru банк (branch office) · de Bank (gambling: banker's funds) · sw benki (institution) · vo bank (branch office) · sk banka (branch office) · cs bankéř (controller of a card game) · uz bank (institution) · it banca (storage for important goods) · hy բանկ (branch office) · es banco (storage for important goods) · cs bank (controller of a card game) · mk банка (institution) · io banko (institution) · fi -pankki (storage for important goods) · unm mpenk (institution) · sq banka (institution) · sv bank (storage for important goods) · se báŋku (institution) · ki fengi (institution) · sk pobočka (branch office) · it banca (branch office) · ta வைப்பகம் (institution) · tr banka (branch office) · br bankad (storage for important goods) · ru банк (controller of a card game) · sm faletupe (institution) · pt banca (gambling: banker's funds) · sh bànka (institution) · mi pēke (institution) · uk банк (branch office) · hy բանկ (storage for important goods) · hil bangko (institution) · nl -bank (storage for important goods) · am ባንክ (institution) · is bankaútibú (branch office) · ru храни́лище (storage for important goods) · mfe labank (institution) · nl bank (institution) · sc banca (institution) · gu બેંક (institution) · sv bankkontor (branch office) · oc banca (institution) · fi pankki (gambling: banker's funds) · bo དངུལ་ཁང (institution) · mt bank (institution) · sv bank (branch office) · za yinzhangz (institution) · es almacén (storage for important goods) · zh 銀行 /银行 (institution) · zh йинхон (institution) · tr banka (institution) · bg банка (fund of pieces to draw from) · hy բանկ (institution) · fr banque (storage for important goods) · rop beingk (institution) · gl banco (institution) · af bank (institution) · ms bank (institution) · pt caixa (fund used in transacting business) · kam mbengi (institution) · vi ngân hàng (institution) · be банк (institution) · scn dammusu (storage for important goods) · bg банка (controller of a card game) · chr ᎠᏕᎳᏗᏗᎢ (institution) · fi pankki (branch office) · uli baaengk (institution) · tg бонк (institution) · luy ebank (institution) · fi kassa (fund used in transacting business) · ady ахъщэзэблэхъущ (institution) · fo banki (institution) · de Bank (institution) · mr बँक (institution) · as বেংক (institution) · ru банк (institution) · scn cascia (fund used in transacting business) · ab абанк (institution) · fi pelinhoitaja (controller of a card game) · bg каса (fund used in transacting business) · id bank (branch office) · haw panakō (institution) · eo banko (branch office) · lb Bank (institution) · ar مَصْرِف (branch office) · ca banc (institution) · af bank (gambling: banker's funds) · sah баан (institution) · it banca (institution) · ar بَنْك (institution) · tpi beng (institution) · eu banku (institution) · el τράπεζα (storage for important goods) · ja 銀行 (institution) · es hucha (device used to store coins or currency) · da bank (institution) · vec banca (institution) · fkv pankko (institution) · fi nostokasa (dominos) (fund of pieces to draw from) · pa ਬੈਂਕ (institution) · ast bancu (institution) · hu bankfiók (branch office) · kmr banke (institution) · bg ба́нка (institution) · is banki (branch office) · sk banka (storage for important goods) · ota بانقه (institution) · sms baŋkk (institution) · hy դրամատուն (branch office) · mr बँक (branch office) · af bank (controller of a card game) · wuu 銀行 /银行 (institution) · nrf banque (institution) · es banco (institution) · lo ທະນາຄານ (institution) · ja 貯金箱 (device used to store coins or currency) · ff 𞤦𞤢𞤲𞤳𞤭 (institution) · fa بَانْک (institution) · yue 銀行 /银行 (institution) · eo deponejo (storage for important goods) · bol banki (institution) · mk ба́нка (storage for important goods) · niv ч’ӽасидыф (institution) · ka ბანკი (institution) · my ဘဏ်တိုက် (branch office) · tk bank (institution) · kn ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ (institution) · fa بانْک (storage for important goods) · fr banque (institution) · ja バンク (branch office) · pl bank (gambling: banker's funds) · za ngaenzhangz (branch office) · de Bank (branch office) · nl bank (branch office) · lkt mázaskaothi (institution) · ny banki (institution) · to fale pa'anga (institution) · pi dhanāgāra (institution) · fa بانْک (institution) · ps بانک (institution) · br bank (institution) · alt банк (institution) · th ธนาคาร (institution) · pdt Bank (branch office) · id bank (institution) · sv bank (institution) · tt банк (institution) · da bank (branch office) · nb bank (branch office) · es banco (branch office) · ar بَنْك (branch office) · kk банк (institution) · he בַּנְק (branch office) · ovd baunka (institution) · nrf banque (branch office) · de Sparschwein (device used to store coins or currency) · ta வங்கி (institution)

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bank en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbɛŋk/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbæŋk] (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ (Canada, US)
• [ˈbaŋk] (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• /ˈbaŋk/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• (US) audio
• [ˈbɛŋk] (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbæŋk/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bankiz Proto-West Germanic *banki Lombardic bankbor. Italian bancabor. Middle French banqueder. English bank Inherited from Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). Doublet of bench, banc, and banco. For the bench-bank relation, compare typologically Russian ла́вка (lávka), прила́вок (prilávok).

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
   • He banked with Barclays.
   • the sort of face you would happily bank with 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
2. (transitive) To put into a bank (financial institution).
   • I’m going to bank the money.
3. (transitive) To store in a bank (storage).
   • the procurement, banking or transplantation of cadaveric organs, eyes, or tissue 2013 March 14, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HIPAA Administrative Simplification:
4. (slang, transitive) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
   • Johnny banked some coke for me.
5. (transitive) To provide banking services to.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bank.
   • They proposed an ambitious plan to bank people in remote rural communities.

Forms

Deriveds

banked · bankable · banker · debank · banking · bank on · double-banked

Translations (15)

ro depune (to put into bank) · el καταθέτω (to put into bank) · nrf bantchi (to put into bank) · es depositar (to put into bank) · es ingresar (to put into bank) · es ahorrar (to put into bank) · it depositare (to put into bank) · fi olla pankin asiakas (to deal with a bank or financial institution) · es tener la cuenta en (to deal with a bank or financial institution) · fi tallettaa (to put into bank) · ru класть в банк (to put into bank) · bg внасям (to put into bank) · pt depositar (to put into bank) · sv sätta in (to put into bank) · bg влагам (to put into bank)

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bank en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbɛŋk/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbæŋk] (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ (Canada, US)
• [ˈbaŋk] (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• /ˈbaŋk/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• (US) audio
• [ˈbɛŋk] (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbæŋk/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Meanings

1. An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
   • Just upstream of Dryburgh Abbey, a reproduction of a classical Greek temple stands at the top of a wooded hillock on the river’s north bank. 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
   • Tiber trembled underneath her banks. 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
   • On the opposite bank of the river other Chinese units attacked Taoshih and Yunmeng north-west of Hankow. 1943 June 8, “Jap Remnants Suffer Heavy Casualties: Alerts In Chungking”, in The Bombay Chronicle, volume XXXI, number 134, page 1:
2. An elevation under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth
   • the banks of Newfoundland
3. A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
4. The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
5. An incline, a hill.
   • This is the hardest duty on the railway, for the trains are heavy and there are some long 1 in 40 banks. 1940 December, O. S. M. Raw, “The Rhodesia Railways—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 640:
   • It's just as quick out of the blocks. The five-car unit has three engines, giving it 2,820hp to play with, so the once-'feared' Devon banks of Hemerdon, Rattery and Dainton are child's play to these trains. 2025 November 12, 'Mystery Shopper', “Is Devon the cream of the crop?”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 48:
6. A mass of clouds.
   • The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.
7. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
8. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
9. The ground at the top of a shaft.
   • Ores are brought to bank.

Forms

Deriveds

bank-run · embank · banked slalom · Lawley Bank · cutbank · clay-bank · Cut Bank · bank-high · hedgebank · creekbank · seabank · river bank · bankline · Moss Bank · sandbank · beetle bank · bankless · bank cod · West Bank · Russian bank · bank up · bank fishing · bank-fish · Clydebank · Black Bank · Agnes Bank · loading bank · oyster bank · bank-martin · Normandy bank · bankside · Galabank · Ten Mile Bank · left bank · South Bank · Tweedbank · Christon Bank · Eskbank · at bank · bankhead · Almondbank · Red Bank · bank cress · Banks Creek · banksman · warping bank · banking · earthbank · Quarry Bank · Banks Pocket · turf bank · Georges Bank · oysterbank · bank-hook · Grand Bank · riverbank · Kents Bank · Lovely Banks · Grand Banks · bank swallow · bank pool · bank vole · spoil bank · Astwood Bank · Redbanks · Taiwan Banks · overbank · Bank Top · streambank · Left Bank · Duffieldbank · mole-bank · Maoribank · right bank · snowbank · bank beaver · fog bank · phone-bank · Kenton Bank Foot · Hest Bank · Banks · cloud bank · fogbank · stopbank · banky · Dogger Bank · footbank · Jodrell Bank · Daisy Bank · Clay Banks · imbank · unbank · peat bank · bank and bank

Relateds

bench

Synonyms

bar

Translations (157)

mi tarawāhi (edge of river or lake) · zlw-slv brzég (edge of river or lake) · lv krasts (edge of river or lake) · ar ضِفَّة (edge of river or lake) · enm bank (edge of river or lake) · lo ຝັ່ງ (edge of river or lake) · mi parenga (edge of river or lake) · it riva (edge of river or lake) · da vold (embankment, an earth slope) · fi penger (embankment, an earth slope) · my ကမ်း (edge of river or lake) · mel pegak (edge of river or lake) · sne tobing (edge of river or lake) · es talud (embankment, an earth slope) · pi kūla (edge of river or lake) · non bakki (edge of river or lake) · fi pengerrys (embankment, an earth slope) · fi kallistus (incline of an aircraft) · he גדה (edge of river or lake) · cy tyle (embankment, an earth slope) · nn breidd (edge of river or lake) · km មាត់ (edge of river or lake) · fi töyräs (edge of river or lake) · esu ekvik (edge of river or lake) · ro mal (edge of river or lake) · es ladeo (incline of an aircraft) · it argine (edge of river or lake) · da bred (edge of river or lake) · pi tīra (edge of river or lake) · vi bờ (edge of river or lake) · orv брѣгъ (edge of river or lake) · bg плитчина (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · sl breg (embankment, an earth slope) · de Bank (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · ko 둑 (edge of river or lake) · nn bredd (edge of river or lake) · ja 岸 (edge of river or lake) · uz bank (edge of river or lake) · el ανάχωμα (embankment, an earth slope) · bdr sedi suang (edge of river or lake) · fi törmä (edge of river or lake) · es terraplén (embankment, an earth slope) · ru вал (embankment, an earth slope) · sk plytčina (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · ccc ijlapi (edge of river or lake) · hy ափ (edge of river or lake) · it sbandamento (incline of an aircraft) · ba яр (edge of river or lake) · it sponda (edge of river or lake) · is árbakki (edge of river or lake) · lo ຕະຫຼິ່ງ (edge of river or lake) · eo teramaso (embankment, an earth slope) · la rīpa (edge of river or lake) · kn ದಡ (edge of river or lake) · mi tahataha (embankment, an earth slope) · fi äyräs (edge of river or lake) · mel tebieng (edge of river or lake) · nl helling (incline of an aircraft) · ms tebing (edge of river or lake) · fi matalikko (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · mi tāhuna (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · fi töyräs (embankment, an earth slope) · ja バンク (edge of river or lake) · pt margem (edge of river or lake) · dsb brjog (edge of river or lake) · nb bredd (edge of river or lake) · lo ຫຼິ່ງ (edge of river or lake) · fi penkka (edge of river or lake) · sl breg (edge of river or lake) · ca riba (edge of river or lake) · fr banc (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · ru ба́нка (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · fi hiekkasärkkä (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · el πλαγιά (embankment, an earth slope) · it cumulo (embankment, an earth slope) · fi ranta (edge of river or lake) · sv bank (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · ru брег (edge of river or lake) · sl nabrežje (edge of river or lake) · es ribera (edge of river or lake) · mi pareparenga (edge of river or lake) · fr rive (edge of river or lake) · uk бе́рег (edge of river or lake) · sga bruach (edge of river or lake) · br ribl (edge of river or lake) · bg бряг (edge of river or lake) · nl oever (edge of river or lake) · es bajío (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · ang ōfer (edge of river or lake) · sk breh (edge of river or lake) · bg рид (embankment, an earth slope) · de Bank (embankment, an earth slope) · ga bruach (edge of river or lake) · lo ຕະລິ່ງ (edge of river or lake) · ro pantă (embankment, an earth slope) · be бе́раг (edge of river or lake) · la agger (embankment, an earth slope) · haw kuāuna (embankment, an earth slope) · et kallas (edge of river or lake) · pt ribeira (edge of river or lake) · fi valli (embankment, an earth slope) · fi rantapenger (edge of river or lake) · de Ufer (edge of river or lake) · pox brig (edge of river or lake) · ru вира́ж (incline of an aircraft) · grc ὄχθη (edge of river or lake) · bdr timbang (edge of river or lake) · es orilla (edge of river or lake) · uk бе́ріг (edge of river or lake) · pdt Eewa (edge of river or lake) · sv bank (embankment, an earth slope) · id gosong (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · da banke (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · jv pinggir (edge of river or lake) · ht bò (rivyè) (edge of river or lake) · sh брије̑г (edge of river or lake) · ia ripa (edge of river or lake) · el όχθη (edge of river or lake) · es banco (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · yi ברעג (edge of river or lake) · mk брег (edge of river or lake) · cs břeh (edge of river or lake) · ill pangebah (edge of river or lake) · egy i-x-m-t-N36 (embankment, an earth slope) · cu брѣгъ (edge of river or lake) · sv bank (edge of river or lake) · hu part (edge of river or lake) · lt krantas (edge of river or lake) · eo bordo (edge of river or lake) · ru бе́рег (edge of river or lake) · fy wâl (edge of river or lake) · chr ᎠᎹᏳᏟᏗ (edge of river or lake) · sh brijȇg (edge of river or lake) · el αμμοσύρτις (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · ru о́тмель (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · bg вира́ж (incline of an aircraft) · is bakki (edge of river or lake) · sh бре̑г (edge of river or lake) · orv берегъ (edge of river or lake) · no banke (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · ru на́сыпь (embankment, an earth slope) · pt talude (embankment, an earth slope) · it ripa (edge of river or lake) · gl riba (edge of river or lake) · ro țărm (edge of river or lake) · hsb brjóh (edge of river or lake) · et pank (edge of river or lake) · gl ribeira (edge of river or lake) · pl brzeg (edge of river or lake) · gd bruach (edge of river or lake) · fi särkkä (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · sh brȇg (edge of river or lake) · it banco (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · pt banco (an underwater area of higher elevation, a sandbank) · th ฝั่ง (edge of river or lake) · th ตลิ่ง (edge of river or lake) · zh 岸 (edge of river or lake)

wikidata: Q2897058

bank en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbɛŋk/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbæŋk] (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ (Canada, US)
• [ˈbaŋk] (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• /ˈbaŋk/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• (US) audio
• [ˈbɛŋk] (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbæŋk/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

From Middle English bank, banke, from Old English *banca (“bench”) (attested in Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-West Germanic *bankō, from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
2. (transitive) To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
3. (transitive) To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
   • to bank sand
4. (intransitive, of clouds) To form a bank; to gather in masses.
   • […] clouds banking above the gravel road, their flat slate-blue bottoms threatening freezing rain or an early snowfall. 2011 December 14, Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite, Emblem Editions, →ISBN:
5. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
6. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
   • Aristoma∣chus would haue them to be stript from their leaues in winter, & in any hand to be banked well about, that the water stand not there in any hollow furrow or hole lower than the other ground 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
7. (obsolete, transitive) To pass by the banks of.
   • Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns? c. 1595, William Shakespeare, King John, act 5, scene 2:
8. (UK) To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
   • Some interesting facts have recently been made known by the L.N.E.R. concerning the 178-ton Garratt 2-8-0 + 0-8-2 engine No. 2395, which since construction in 1925 has spent the whole of its working life banking coal trains up the 3 miles of 1 in 40 between Wentworth junction and West Silkstone, on the Worsborough branch, near Barnsley. 1942 March, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes”, in Railway Magazine, page 93:
   • [...] the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a "Hall", had to bank the train into Reading General. 1960 July, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 443:
   • Soon after leaving Bebra the line rises, mostly at 1 in 74, for 7 miles to Cornberg and all trains of over 400 tons are banked. 1960 September, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part One”, in Trains Ilustrated, page 558:

Forms

Deriveds

bank-and-turn indicator · turn-and-bank indicator

Synonyms

bank up

Translations (26)

mi tāmou (to cover in ashes) · es amontonar (to form into a bank) · fi peittää tuhkalla (to cover in ashes) · mi kōmou (to cover in ashes) · es juntar (to form into a bank) · nl rollen (to incline laterally in order to turn) · fi kasata (to form into a bank) · fi kallistua (to incline laterally in order to turn) · es ladearse (to incline laterally in order to turn) · mi whakapopō (to cover in ashes) · ca inclinar (to incline laterally in order to turn) · fi kallistaa (to make incline in turn) · mi kāpui (to cover in ashes) · es recoger (to form into a bank) · ca encendrar (to cover in ashes) · bg правя насип (to form into a bank) · ru накреня́ться (to incline laterally in order to turn) · es ladear (to make incline in turn) · mi kōmau (to cover in ashes) · bg натрупвам (to form into a bank) · bg наклонявам се (to incline laterally in order to turn) · es peraltar (to make incline in turn) · es apilar (to form into a bank) · ca apilar (to form into a bank) · nl doen hellen (to incline laterally in order to turn) · ca decantar (to make incline in turn)

bank en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbɛŋk/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbæŋk] (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ (Canada, US)
• [ˈbaŋk] (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• /ˈbaŋk/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• (US) audio
• [ˈbɛŋk] (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbæŋk/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”).

Meanings

1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
   • a bank of switches
   • a bank of pay phones
   • Wanderers were finally woken from their slumber when Kevin Davies brought a fine save out of Brad Guzan while, minutes after the restart, Klasnic was blocked out by a bank of Villa defenders. 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
3. A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
4. (qualifier:pinball) A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.

Forms

Deriveds

optical bank · phone bank · double-bank · filterbank · filter bank

Synonyms

block (row or panel of items; panel) · grid (row or panel of items) · rank (row or panel of items) · line (row or panel of items; row) · tier (row or panel of items) · panel (row or panel of items)

Translations (16)

ca teclat (row of keys on a musical or typewriter keyboard) · fi kosketinrivi (row of keys on a musical or typewriter keyboard) · el συστοιχία (row or panel of items) · es teclado (row of keys on a musical or typewriter keyboard) · da række (row or panel of items) · sk rad (row or panel of items) · fi näppäinrivi (row of keys on a musical or typewriter keyboard) · fi kenttä (row or panel of items) · fi rivi (row or panel of items) · fr rang (row or panel of items) · es hilera (row or panel of items) · ga múr (row or panel of items) · da batteri (row or panel of items) · ca filera (row or panel of items) · fi asema (row or panel of items) · es hilera (row of keys on a musical or typewriter keyboard)

bank en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

• [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbɛŋk/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbæŋk] (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ (Canada, US)
• [ˈbaŋk] (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• /ˈbaŋk/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• (US) audio
• [ˈbɛŋk] (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbæŋk/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

From Middle English bank, banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench”). Akin to Old English benċ (“bench”).

Meanings

1. (qualifier:order and arrangement, transitive) To arrange or order in a row.

Forms

bank en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

• [ˈbɛ̃ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbɛŋk/ (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbæŋk] (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbɛ̃ŋk/ (Canada, US)
• [ˈbaŋk] (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
• /ˈbaŋk/ (British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales)
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• [ˈbɛŋk] (New-Zealand)
• [ˈbeɪ̯ŋk] (Canada, US)
• /ˈbæŋk/ (Australia, General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈbeɪ̯ŋk/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

Probably from French banc. Of Germanic origin, and akin to English bench.

Meanings

1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
   • Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep. 1658, Edmund Waller, he Passion of Dido for Æneas:
2. A bench or seat for judges in court.
3. The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius, or a court held for jury trials. See banc
4. (archaic) A kind of table used by printers.
5. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

Forms

Deriveds

Common Bank · Bank Royal

Relateds

banc · frank bank · banquette