money
n. uncountablen. the coins and paper notes you use to buy things. It is the value you have in your bank account or wallet.
n. a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; a collective asset used to value and pay for goods and services.
I need to save some money for my holiday.
Most people prefer to pay with a credit card instead of carrying a lot of physical money in their pockets.
Economists argue that the primary function of money is to act as a stable store of value, allowing individuals to defer consumption from the present into the future.
Etymology tree Latin Monēta Latin monēta Old French moneie Old French monoie Anglo-Norman muneiebor. Middle English moneye English money From Middle English moneye, moneie, money, borrowed from Anglo-Norman muneie (“money”), from Latin monēta (“money, a place for coining money, coin, mint”), from the name of the temple of Juno Moneta in Rome, where a mint was. In this sense, displaced native Old English feoh, whence English fee. Doublet of mint, ultimately from the same Latin word but through Germanic and Old English, and of manat, through Russian and Azeri or Turkmen.
Uncountable in its general sense; the plural 'monies' is reserved for formal legal or financial contexts involving distinct sums.
I have many moneysI have a lot of moneyMoney is uncountable in everyday English and does not take a plural form or the quantifier 'many'.