WAMPUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wampum mean? 

• WAMPUM (noun)
  The noun WAMPUM has 2 senses:

1. informal terms for money

2. small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

  Familiarity information: WAMPUM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAMPUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Informal terms for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("wampum" is a kind of...):

money (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

peag; wampum; wampumpeag

Hypernyms ("wampum" is a kind of...):

beads; string of beads (several beads threaded together on a string)