bank

• banck, bancke, banke (obsolete)

• IPA^(key): /bæŋk/

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• Rhymes: -æŋk

From Middle English banke, from Middle French banque, from Old Italian banca (“counter, moneychanger's bench or table”), from Lombardic bank (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Germanic *bankiz (“bench, counter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to turn, curve, bend, bow”). More at bench.

bank (plural banks)

1. An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
   • 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:

     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”.

2. A branch office of such an institution.
3. An underwriter or controller of a card game; also banque.

   Synonym: banker

4. A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
   • Francis Bacon

     Let it be no bank or common stock, but every man be master of his own money.

5. (gambling) 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
   • 2010, Paul Bouchard, Enlistment (page 113)

     Military dude was working for a drug dealer, right? and making good bank with it—he was making good money.

7. In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
8. A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

   blood bank; sperm bank; data bank

9. 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.

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

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.

2. (transitive) To put into a bank.

   I'm going to bank the money.

3. (transitive, slang) To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.

   Johnny banked some coke for me.

• bankable
• banked
• banker
• banking
• bank on

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

bank (plural banks)

1. (hydrology) An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
   • Shakespeare

     Tiber trembled underneath her banks.

   • 2014, Ian Jack, "Is this the end of Britishness", The Guardian, 16 September 2014:

     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.

2. (nautical, hydrology) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).

   the banks of Newfoundland

3. (geography) A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
4. (aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
5. (rail transport) An incline, a hill.
6. A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.

   The bank of clouds on the horizon announced the arrival of the predicted storm front.

7. (mining) The face of the coal at which miners are working.
8. (mining) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
9. (mining) The ground at the top of a shaft.

   Ores are brought to bank.

• bench

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

1. (intransitive, aviation) 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. (transitive) To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
5. (transitive) To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
   • Holland

     banked well with earth

6. (transitive, obsolete) To pass by the banks of.
   • c. 1595, Shakespeare, William, King John, Act 5, Scene 2:

     Have I not heard these islanders shout out / Vive le roi! as I have banked their towns?

• bank-and-turn indicator, turn-and-bank indicator

From Middle English bank (“bank”), banke, from Old French banc (“bench”), from Frankish *bank. Akin to Old English benc (“bench”).

bank (plural banks)

1. A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.

   a bank of switches

   a bank of pay phones

   • 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport‎:

     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.

2. A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.

• (row or panel of items): (row) line, rank, tier; (panel) block, grid, panel

• double-bank
• filter bank, filterbank
• optical bank
• phone bank

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

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

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

bank (plural banks)

1. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
   • Waller

     Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojans sweep / Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

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.

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4. (archaic, printing) A kind of table used by printers.
5. (music) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.

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6. (uncountable) slang for money

• Bank Royal
• Common Bank

• banc
• banquette
• frank bank

• Knab, knab, nabk

bank

1. bank (financial institution)

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”).

bank c (singular definite banken, plural indefinite banker)

1. bank (financial institution, branch office, controller of a game, a safe and guaranteed place of storage)

• bankanvisning
• bankier
• bankør

From German Bank (“bench”).

bank c

1. only used in certain expressions

• over en bank

bank n (singular definite banket, plural indefinite bank)

1. knock (an abrupt rapping sound)
2. (pl) a beating

• (beating): tæsk, tæv

bank

1. imperative of banke

From Middle Dutch banc, from Old Dutch *bank, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

• IPA^(key): /bɑŋk/

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• Hyphenation: bank
• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

bank m or f (plural banken, diminutive bankje n)

1. bank (financial institution)
2. bench
3. (Netherlands) couch, sofa

   Synonym: sofa

4. place where seashells are found
5. shallow part of the sea near the coast
6. 100 Dutch guilders banknote (also in the diminutives bankie or bankje.)
7. (games) bank, a player who controls a deposit in some card games or board games

• Afrikaans: bank
• → Indonesian: bank
• → Sranan Tongo: barki
  • → Dutch: barkie

From German Bank, from Italian banca.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɒŋk]

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bank (plural bankok)

1. bank (financial institution)

   Synonym: pénzintézet

2. (gambling) bank (the sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses)

• bankár

(Compound words):

• bankjegy
• bankrabló
• bankszámla
• jegybank
• központi bank

(Expressions):

• adja a bankot

Back-formation from banka (“to knock, to beat”).

• IPA^(key): /pauŋ̊k/
• Rhymes: -auŋ̊k

bank n (genitive singular banks, no plural)

1. knock, blow

From Dutch bank (“bank”). See also bank.

• IPA^(key): /baŋ/
• Hyphenation: bank
• Homophone: bang

bank

1. bank, an institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
2. bank, a safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.

• perbankan

• “bank” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

bank m (plural banek)

1. bank

bank m (plural bankijiet)

1. bench

bank (plural banks)

1. the bank of a river or lake

• IPA^(key): /bɑŋk/

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural banker, definite plural bankene)

1. a bank (financial institution)

bank

1. imperative of banke

• “bank” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from French banque, from Italian banco (“bench”), banca.

• IPA^(key): /bɑŋk/

bank m (definite singular banken, indefinite plural bankar, definite plural bankane)

1. a bank (financial institution)

• “bank” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• panch

From Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

bank f

1. bench

• Middle High German: banc, bank
  • German: Bank
  • Danish: bank
  • Luxembourgish: Bänk
• → Italian: banco, banchetto
  • → Middle French: banket
    • French banquet
      • → Middle Dutch banket
        • → Dutch: banket
          • Afrikaans: banket
        • → Middle English: banket
          • Scots: banket, bancat
          • English: banquet

From Italian banco, from German Bank.[1]

• IPA^(key): /bank/

bank m inan

1. bank

• bankowy
• bankowość
• bankier

• bank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

bánk

1. inflection of bánka:
   1. genitive dual
   2. genitive plural

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaŋːk/

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From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

bank c

1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)
2. a bank (place of storage)
3. a bank (of a river of lake)
4. a sandbank

• bank in Svenska Akademiens ordbok online.

Borrowed from French banc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑŋk/
• Hyphenation: bank

bank (definite accusative bankı, plural banklar)

1. bench (long seat)

bank (plural banks)

1. bank (financial institution)