mammon
noun
riches or material wealth.
Mammon
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British
/ ˈmæmən /
noun
mammon
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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
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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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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
Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.
From Time ● Mar. 27, 2014
Her father had cast his lot with the mammon of unrighteousness and gleaned the pleasant result of the proceeding.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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
But Prince Albert decreed it too risky, all too aware of the negative publicity a chopper crash atop this temple to Mammon would bring.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 30, 2014
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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