denomination

Borrowed from Old French denominacion, from Latin dēnōminātiō.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˌnɒmɪˈneɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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denomination (countable and uncountable, plural denominations)

1. (uncountable) The act of naming or designating.
2. (countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals
3. (countable) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect or religious subgroup

   She follows the Ahmadiyya denomination of Islam.

4. (countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc

   What denomination is that money? They are all 50 euro notes.

   • 1896, William Graham Sumner, chapter 11, in History of Banking in the United States:

     In 1823, a further issue of treasury notes was ordered to the amount of $100,000, in denominations of five to seventy-five cents, receivable for dues to the State.

• sect

• order

• denominationalism

• denominate

• name
• appellation
• title
• face value

• denomination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• denomination in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.