mammon
noun
riches or material wealth.
Mammon
1
British
/ ˈmæmən /
noun
mammon
2
British
/ ˈmæmən /
noun
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riches or wealth regarded as a source of evil and corruption
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avarice or greed
mammon
Cultural
Other Word Forms
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
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But there are signs in 2020 that mammon is making a comeback.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 13, 2020
A: Some of the most prominent modernist structures are churches and banks, which, in regard to what you are designing for, are almost opposites: God and mammon.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 17, 2017
As ever, faith follows mammon, and mammon, faith.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2016
But for Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University, the conference's obsession with the present, and with mammon, is short-sighted.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2016
And the more he thought of the groove he was in, of the cold, selfish, grasping city life where mammon was king and sentiment a jest, the more his heart turned to Rockhaven.
From Rockhaven by Munn, Charles Clark
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
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