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• mony
  mony

  adjective

  many.
• -mony
  -mony

  a suffix found on abstract nouns borrowed from Latin, usually denoting a status, role, or function (matrimony; testimony ), or a personal quality or kind of behavior (acrimony; sanctimony ).

mony

¹ American  

[mon-ee] / ˈmɒn i /

adjective

Scot. and North England.

1. many.

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-mony ² American  

1. a suffix found on abstract nouns borrowed from Latin, usually denoting a status, role, or function (matrimony; testimony ), or a personal quality or kind of behavior (acrimony; sanctimony ).

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mony British  

/ ˈmɒnɪ /

determiner

1. a Scottish word for many

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Etymology

Origin of -mony

From Latin -mōnium (neuter), -mōnia (feminine), presumably originally derivatives with -ium, -ia of -mōn-, an adjective or noun suffix, cognate with Greek -mōn; see origin at -ium ( def. ), -ia; see hegemony); cf. alimony

Example Sentences

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mony -mony

Settling in Har mony, Pennsylvania, his harsh, puritanical doctrines and iron discipline turned the religious zeal of his "spiritual communists" to good account.

From Time Magazine Archive

And mony a braw held you've uncurled Wi' fear and fright, As roond the hairpin bends you whirled, Like Hell gane gyte.

From Time Magazine Archive

New Har mony, lodestar of dreamers and crackpots from all over the earth, was sold to a moon-faced cardsharp and forger who promptly opened a saloon in a handy cow shelter.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last week's ground-breaking cere, mony there was some talk of peacetime research, the aspect of nuclear physics that interests scientists most.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are going to pay me evry week like for a part time job because that was part of the arraingment when they got the mony from the Welberg foundashun.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

The ending -mony is from the Latin -monium.

From Stories from Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath