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• mammon
  mammon

  noun

  riches or material wealth.
• Mammon
  Mammon

  noun

  New Testament the personification of riches and greed in the form of a false god

mammon

American  

[mam-uhn] / ˈmæm ən /

noun

1. New Testament. riches or material wealth.

   Synonyms:

   gold, money

2. Often Mammon a personification of riches as an evil spirit or deity.

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Mammon ¹ British  

/ ˈmæmən /

noun

1. New Testament the personification of riches and greed in the form of a false god

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mammon ² British  

/ ˈmæmən /

noun

1. riches or wealth regarded as a source of evil and corruption

2. avarice or greed

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mammon Cultural  

1. A New Testament expression for material wealth, which some people worship as a god. Figuratively, it simply means money.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• mammonism
  noun
• mammonist
  noun
• mammonish
  adjective
• mammonistic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of mammon

First recorded before 1000; Middle English, from Late Latin mammona, mammonas, mammon, from Greek mam(m)ōnâs, from Aramaic māmōnā “riches, wealth”

Example Sentences

He built vast temples to Mammon, some of which, heavy with debt, collapsed in a heap.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

The couple safely fled with their three pets — cats Bird and Mammon and a dog, Dune — and a few belongings.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2025

Perhaps the Age of Mammon might be a better term.

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2017

England continues to produce quite-good players who arrive at tournaments tired, insular and incurious, whose careers are consumed instead by the unceasing Mammon of English club football.

From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2016

I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë