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ˈstɜr lɪŋster·ling

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sterlingadjective

    British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK

  2. greatest, sterling(a), superlativeadjective

    highest in quality

Wiktionary

  1. sterlingnoun

    the currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound

  2. sterlingnoun

    former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness: for gold 0.91666 and for silver 0.925.

  3. sterlingnoun

    sterling silver, or articles made from this material

  4. sterlingadjective

    of, or relating to British currency, or the former British coinage

  5. sterlingadjective

    of, relating to, or made from sterling silver

  6. sterlingadjective

    high quality

  7. Sterlingnoun

    A Scottish surname, variant of Stirling.

  8. Sterlingnoun

    An English surname, thought to be a variant of Starling.

  9. Sterlingnoun

    transferred from the surnames.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Sterlingadjective

    Etymology: Of this word many derivations have been offered; the most probable of which is that offered by William Camden, who derives it from the Easterlings, who were employed as coiners.

    The king’s treasure of store, that he left at his death, amounted unto eighteen hundred thousand pounds sterling. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

    Several of them would rather chuse to count out a sum in sesterces than in pounds sterling. Addison.

    There is not one single witty phrase in this collection, which hath not received the stamp and approbation of one hundred years: he may therefore be secure to find them all genuine, sterling, and authentick. Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation.

  2. Sterlingnoun

    Etymology: sterlingum, low Lat. from the adjective.

    This visionary various projects tries,
    And knows that to be rich is to be wise:
    By useful observation he can tell
    The sacred charms that in true sterling dwell;
    How gold makes a patrician of a slave,
    A dwarf an Atlas, a Thersites brave. Samuel Garth.

    Great name, which in our rolls recorded stands,
    Leads honours, and protects the learned bands,
    Accept this offering to thy bounty due,
    And Roman wealth in English sterling view. Charles Arbuthnot.

ChatGPT

  1. sterling

    Sterling refers to British currency, particularly the Pound Sterling, which is the official currency of the United Kingdom. The term can also refer to sterling silver, which is a high-quality alloy made of 92.5% silver by weight, commonly used in luxury items and fine dining accessories. Furthermore, 'sterling' can also be used as an adjective to describe something as being excellent or extremely valuable.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sterlingnoun

    same as Starling, 3

  2. Sterlingnoun

    any English coin of standard value; coined money

  3. Sterlingnoun

    a certain standard of quality or value for money

  4. Sterlingadjective

    belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used

  5. Sterlingadjective

    genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense

  6. Etymology: [OE. sterlynge, starling, for easterling, LL. esterlingus, probably from Easterling, once the popular name of German trades in England, whose money was of the purest quality: cf. MHG. sterlink a certain coin. Cf. East. Certain merchants of Norwaie, Denmarke, and of others those parties, called Ostomanni, or (as in our vulgar language we tearme them), easterlings, because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed. In the time of . . . King Richard the First, monie coined in the east parts of Germanie began to be of especiall request in England for the puritie thereof, and was called Easterling monie, as all inhabitants of those parts were called Easterlings, and shortly after some of that countrie, skillful in mint matters and allaies, were sent for into this realme to bring the coine to perfection; which since that time was called of them sterling, for Easterling. Camden. Four thousand pound of sterlings. R. of Gloucester.]

Wikidata

  1. Sterling

    Sterling, Virginia is a census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 Census was 27,822. It is located northwest of Herndon, east of Ashburn, and west of Great Falls, and includes part of Dulles International Airport and the former AOL corporate headquarters. Sterling is also home to the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office, as well as the Sterling Field Support Center, the National Weather Service test, research, and evaluation center for weather instruments.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sterling

    stėr′ling, adj. a designation of British money—pure, genuine, of good quality—also generally, of value or excellence, authoritative. [Orig. the name of a penny; prob. from the Hanse merchants or Easterlings ('men from the east'), from North Germany, who had probably the privilege of coining money in England in the 13th century.]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. STERLING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sterling is ranked #1362 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sterling surname appeared 25,894 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 9 would have the surname Sterling.

    63.6% or 16,471 total occurrences were White.
    28.4% or 7,377 total occurrences were Black.
    4.3% or 1,126 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 616 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.6% or 179 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.4% or 127 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'STERLING' in Nouns Frequency: #2158

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of STERLING in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of STERLING in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of STERLING in a Sentence

  1. Justice Department:

    This evidence suggests that Officer Salamoni fired his weapon when he believed that Sterling was going for his gun a second time, after Officer Lake had warned Sterling not to move, although the videos do not show Sterling's right hand at the time those shots were fired, they show that Sterling's right hand was not under Officer Salamoni's control. The evidence also cannot establish that Sterling was not reaching for a gun when Officer Salamoni yelled that Sterling was doing so.

  2. Carlos Chorens:

    The following day, Sterling and I went to McDonald's and bought them breakfast, i came back at six o'clock, made contact with them and found out that they lost some of their property. Someone had stolen some of their suitcases.

  3. Lukman Otunuga:

    Heightened political risk at home coupled with Brexit uncertainty may prompt the BOE to repeatedly delay monetary policy normalization in 2018, if expectations continue to diminish over the central bank raising UK interest rates, sterling is at risk of experiencing heavy losses down the road.

  4. James Comey:

    I think people like that, like Rod Rosenstein, who are people of accomplishment but not real sterling character, strong character, find themselves trapped, and then they start telling themselves a story to justify their being trapped, which is, yeah, Rod Rosenstein's awful, but the country needs me.

  5. Neil Mellor:

    The clear risk must be for further downside, uncertainty equals currency weakness, we know this, and there is no sense that this (sterling) is a value trade right now and that you have to get back in. It is too early for anyone to start calling a bottom.

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