Definition of Banknote

1. Noun. A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank). "He peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"


Definition of Banknote

1. Noun. A piece of paper currency. ¹

2. Noun. (historical) A demand note issued by private banks presumably backed up by gold or silver coin. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Banknote

1. a promissory note [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Banknote

bankes
banket
bankets
bankhart deformity
banking
banking company
banking concern
banking game
banking industry
banking system
bankings
bankit
bankits
bankless
banklike
banknote (current term)
banknotes
bankr.
bankroll
bankrolled
bankroller
bankrollers
bankrolling
bankrolls
bankrupcies
bankrupcy
bankrupt
bankrupt cart
bankrupt carts
bankruptcies

Literary usage of Banknote

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Early American Engraving Upon Copper, 1727 by Grolier Club (1908)
"... EARLY AMERICAN banknote ENGRAVING 289 Perkins, Fairman & Heath. Specimen plate of "patent hardened steel"; submitted in England in 1818, for preventing ..."

2. Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorus, Cements, Pastes, and Mucilages by Ferdinand Dawidowsky (1905)
"banknote or mouth glue. Dissolve by the aid of heat a fine quality of glue or gelatine with about a quarter.or one- third of its weight of brown sugar, ..."

3. A Confederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Morgan Dawson (1913)
"Two years ago this fall, father threw me a banknote at table, and I purchased this with it. Now it is my only headgear, except a sunbonnet. ..."

4. The War in Hungary, 1848-1849 by Max Schlesinger (1850)
"... appointed Commander-in-chief—the Finance Minister and the banknote-press—Austrian Troops on the ..."

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