English dictionary

wampum

/'w/A/mp/@/m/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

informal terms for money

noun.possession

Synonyms boodle bread cabbage clams dinero dough gelt kale lettuce lolly loot lucre moolah pelf scratch shekels simoleons sugar

Source: WordNet 3.0
small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

noun.artifact

Synonyms peag wampumpeag

Source: WordNet 3.0
Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament.

noun

Source: webster1913