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bank.

a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈbaŋːk/

  1. a bank (financial institution, branch of such an institution)

    common-gender

  2. a bank (place of storage)

    common-gender

  3. a bank (of a river of lake)

    common-gender

  4. a sandbank

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Dutch bank, German Bank or Low German bank, all from Italian banco, from Old High German banc, from Proto-West Germanic *banki, from Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

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