"Abraham Newland" meaning in English

See Abraham Newland in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Abraham Newlands [plural]
Etymology: From Abraham Newland (1730–1807), chief cashier at the Bank of England, whose signature appeared on every banknote issued by the Bank from 1782 to 1807. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Abraham Newland (plural Abraham Newlands)
  1. (archaic, British slang) A British banknote. Wikipedia link: Abraham Newland Tags: British, archaic, slang Categories (topical): Money
    Sense id: en-Abraham_Newland-en-noun-RtuSP1c7 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From Abraham Newland (1730–1807), chief cashier at the Bank of England, whose signature appeared on every banknote issued by the Bank from 1782 to 1807.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Abraham Newlands",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Abraham Newland (plural Abraham Newlands)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Money",
          "orig": "en:Money",
          "parents": [
            "Business",
            "Economics",
            "Society",
            "Social sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Sciences",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1800, Whims of the Day, 2nd verse:",
          "text": "For fashion or arts, should you seek foreign parts, / It matters not wherever you land, / Jew, Christian, or Greek, the same language they speak, / That's the language of Abraham Newland: / Oh, Abraham Newland! / Wonderful Abraham Newland! / Tho' with compliments cramm'd, you may die and be d—d, / If you hav'n't an Abraham Newland.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A British banknote."
      ],
      "id": "en-Abraham_Newland-en-noun-RtuSP1c7",
      "links": [
        [
          "banknote",
          "banknote"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, British slang) A British banknote."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Abraham Newland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Abraham Newland"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From Abraham Newland (1730–1807), chief cashier at the Bank of England, whose signature appeared on every banknote issued by the Bank from 1782 to 1807.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Abraham Newlands",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Abraham Newland (plural Abraham Newlands)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Money"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1800, Whims of the Day, 2nd verse:",
          "text": "For fashion or arts, should you seek foreign parts, / It matters not wherever you land, / Jew, Christian, or Greek, the same language they speak, / That's the language of Abraham Newland: / Oh, Abraham Newland! / Wonderful Abraham Newland! / Tho' with compliments cramm'd, you may die and be d—d, / If you hav'n't an Abraham Newland.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A British banknote."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "banknote",
          "banknote"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, British slang) A British banknote."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "archaic",
        "slang"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Abraham Newland"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Abraham Newland"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Abraham Newland meaning in English (1.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (9a96ef4 and 4ed51a5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.