What does cheap mean?
Definitions for cheap
tʃipcheap
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word cheap.
Princeton's WordNet
cheap, inexpensiveadjective
relatively low in price or charging low prices
"it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashyadjective
tastelessly showy
"a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments"
bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinnyadjective
of very poor quality; flimsy
cheap, chinchy, chintzyadjective
embarrassingly stingy
Wiktionary
cheapnoun
Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
cheapnoun
A market; marketplace.
cheapnoun
Price.
cheapnoun
A low price; a bargain.
a good cheap
cheapnoun
Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
cheapverb
To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
cheapverb
To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
cheapverb
To buy; purchase.
cheapverb
To sell.
cheapadjective
Low and/or reduced in price.
cheapadjective
Of poor quality.
cheapadjective
Of little worth.
cheapadjective
underhand; dubious.
cheapadjective
frugal; stingy
Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
CHIP, Cheap, Chipping
in the names of places, imply a market; from the Sax. cyppan ceapan , to buy. Edmund Gibson Cam.
CHEAPadjective
Etymology: ceapan, Sax. koopen, Dutch, to buy.
Where there are a great many sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. On the other side, raise up a great many buyers for a few sellers, and the same thing will immediately turn dear. John Locke.
The goodness, that is cheap in beauty, makes
Beauty brief in goodness. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure.Had I so lavish of my presence been
So common hackney’d in the eyes of men,
So stale and cheap to vulgar company. William Shakespeare, Henry IV.He that is too much in any thing, so that he giveth another occasion of society, maketh himself cheap. Francis Bacon.
May your sick fame still languish till it die,
And you grow cheap in every subject’s eye. Dryden.The usual titles of distinction, which belong to us, are turned into terms of derision and reproach, and every way is taken by profane men, towards rendering us cheap and contemptible. Francis Atterbury.
Cheapnoun
Market; purchase; bargain; as good cheap; [ a bon marche, Fr.]
Etymology: cheping is an old word for market; whence Eastcheap, Cheapside.
The same wine that comes out of Candia, which we pay so dear for now a days, in that good world was very good cheap. Philip Sidney, b. ii.
It is many a man’s case to tire himself out with hunting after that abroad, which he carries about him all the while, and may have it better cheap at home. Roger L'Estrange.
Some few insulting cowards, who love to vapour good cheap, may trample on those who give least resistance. Decay of Piety.
ChatGPT
cheap
Cheap refers to something that is low in cost or price, and is often associated with being relatively inferior in terms of quality or value. Nonetheless, it does not necessarily imply poor quality, as it may also indicate a bargain or a good purchase for a relatively low cost.
Webster Dictionary
Cheapnoun
a bargain; a purchase; cheapness
Cheapnoun
having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value
Cheapnoun
of comparatively small value; common; mean
Cheapadverb
cheaply
Cheapverb
to buy; to bargain
Etymology: [AS. cep bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.]
Wikidata
Cheap
Cheap is the debut album from Seasick Steve. It consists of songs by him and his Swedish/Norwegian band The Level Devils, and also two stories from his life as a hobo. The Level Devils consisted at this time of Kai Christoffersen playing the drums and Jo Husmo bass. Dan Magnusson subsequently took over drumming duties.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Cheap
chēp, adj. low in price: of a place where prices are low, as 'a cheap market:' of a low price in relation to the value: easily obtained: of small value, or reckoned at such.—v.t. Cheap′en, to ask the price of a thing: to make cheap, to lower the price of: to lower the reputation of: to beat down the price of.—n. Cheap′ener.—adv. Cheap′ly.—n. Cheap′ness.—Cheap Jack, or John, a travelling hawker who pretends to give great bargains; Cheap labour, labour paid at a poor rate; Cheap trip, an excursion by rail or steamer at a reduced fare; Cheap-tripper, one who goes on such a trip.—Dirt cheap, ridiculously cheap.—On the cheap, cheap or cheaply.—To be cheap of anything (Scot.), to get off with less than one deserved or expected, as of punishment. [Orig. good cheap, i.e. a good bargain; A.S. ceap, price, a bargain; A.S. céapian, Ice. kaupa, Ger. kaufen, to buy; Scot. coup—all borrowed from L. caupo, a huckster.]
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
CHEAP
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cheap is ranked #119508 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Cheap surname appeared 145 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cheap.
71.7% or 104 total occurrences were White.
22.7% or 33 total occurrences were Asian.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'cheap' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2937
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'cheap' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1214
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'cheap' in Adjectives Frequency: #183
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Anagrams for cheap »
chape
peach
Peach
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cheap in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cheap in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of cheap in a Sentence
We're just stuck in this negative vortex, where people don't like China...and now it's a 'broken IPO', which has added even more insult to injury, the stock is cheap, it's very cheap.
There's a mismatch of supply and demand, your hopes of getting cheap flights for the summer are slim to none.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban:
It is Hungary's basic interest to operate, sustain and potentially expand the nuclear power plant, or else the price of electricity will skyrocket. Paks equals cheap electricity, so the Hungarian government will execute the investment.
This is just cheap show. I can prove my innocence in court.
Because of cheap oil and the weaker euro and very low funding costs we expect things to gradually improve in the economy and then to grow with all its pillars - investment, consumption, exports in the second half of the year.
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Translations for cheap
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- goedkoopAfrikaans
- رَخِيصArabic
- ucuzAzerbaijani
- осһоҙ, арзанBashkir
- та́нныBelarusian
- е́втин, намален, долнокачественBulgarian
- সস্তাBengali
- baratCatalan, Valencian
- levnýCzech
- йӳнӗChuvash
- tarvelig, billigDanish
- geizig, preisgünstig, billig, preiswertGerman
- φτηνόςGreek
- barato, corriente, económicoSpanish
- odavEstonian
- merkeBasque
- ارزان, مفتPersian
- pihi, vähäarvoinen, halpa, huono, alennettu, kehnoFinnish
- bon marché, [[pas]] [[cher]], au rabais, [[peu]] [[cher]], à deux balles, modique, radin, pas cherFrench
- saorIrish
- barato, barateiroGalician
- neuphriosoilManx
- זול, זולהHebrew
- सस्ताHindi
- olcsó, értéktelenHungarian
- էժանագին, էժանArmenian
- murahIndonesian
- chipaIdo
- ódýrIcelandic
- scadente, economicoItalian
- 安価, 激安, 安い, 安っぽい, 安物Japanese
- იაფფასიანიGeorgian
- арзанKazakh
- ថោកKhmer
- 싼, 싸다Korean
- هەرزان, توڕەهات, بێقیمەتKurdish
- арзанKyrgyz
- vīlisLatin
- bëllegLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ຖືກLao
- pigus, pigiLithuanian
- lētsLatvian
- евтин, неквалите́тен, поевтинет, намален, сниженMacedonian
- хямд төсөрMongolian
- murahMalay
- irħisMaltese
- သက်သာBurmese
- billigNorwegian
- laagwaardig, in aanbieding, goedkoop, onduur, ordinair, afgeprijsd, betaalbaar, waardeloos, schamelDutch
- tandetny, taniPolish
- ارزانPashto, Pushto
- vil, barateado, reles, baratoPortuguese
- bunmarcho, bùnmartgieu, bunmarchà, bunmartgea, bienmarcau, bunmartgàRomansh
- ieftinRomanian
- прижи́мистый, скупо́й, ска́редный, дешёвый, низкока́чественный, низкопро́бный, нека́чественный, недорого́йRussian
- јефтин, jeftin, nekvalitetan, неквалитетанSerbo-Croatian
- බාල, ලාභSinhala, Sinhalese
- lacnýSlovak
- poceni, cenenSlovene
- lirëAlbanian
- billig, nedsattSwedish
- స్వల్ప లాభం, తగ్గింపు ధర, తక్కువ రకం, చౌకTelugu
- арзонTajik
- ถูกThai
- arzanTurkmen
- muraTagalog
- ucuzTurkish
- арзанTatar
- ئەرزانUyghur, Uighur
- деше́вийUkrainian
- ارزاں, سستاUrdu
- arzonUzbek
- rẻVietnamese
- jerikVolapük
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