Sterling

What do we mean by sterling?

British money, especially the pound as the basic unit of currency of the United Kingdom. noun

British coinage of silver or gold, having as a standard of fineness 0.500 for silver and 0.91666 for gold. noun

Sterling silver. noun

Articles, such as tableware, made of sterling silver. noun

Consisting of or relating to sterling or British money. adjective

Made of sterling silver. adjective

Of the highest quality. adjective

See starling. noun

A silver coin struck by English (and Scottish) kings from the time of Richard I. (1190). noun

English money. noun

Of fixed or standard national value; conforming to the national standard of value: said of English money, and, by extension, of the precious metals: as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling. Abbreviated ster., stg.

Of acknowledged worth or influence; authoritative.

Genuine; true; pure; hence, of great value or excellence.

An obsolete form of starling. noun

Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage adjective

Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value. adjective

Same as starling, 3. noun

Any English coin of standard value; coined money. noun

A certain standard of quality or value for money. noun

The currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound.

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

Sterling silver, or articles made from this material.

A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge; a starling.

Words that are spelled similarly to sterling:
sterling, starling, stealing, stirling, steeling, sperling, steerling, stelling, serling, esterling, string, telling, swelling, staring, serving, selling, steering, stirring, spelling, stifling, startling, stalling, stemming, starving, starring, starting, seedling, steaming, storming, sealing, shearling, stepping, swirling, styling, shelling, snarling, smelling, storing, steading, sheeling, stewing, terming, steeping, swealing, surling, swerving, steaning, stabling, skirling, sparling, steeving, merling, seeling, werling, stetting, staling, storting, easterling, spurling, stapling, stenting, fosterling, shorling, shealing, stooling, stilling, steening, steepling, erling, steining, storying, snelling, gerling, sheiling, spirling, serging, herling, sterrink, seling, oysterling, smerlin, starlink, vierling, esterline, berling, sterlings, sering, stellung, eberling, westerling, seraing, sherlin, soderling, speeling, speling, overling, seiling, steyning, tering.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word sterling:
marlin, pence, shilling, coinage, pound, hayden, draper, dollar, currency, ruby, morton, cooper, heights, yale, silver, coins, pounds, lyon, price, euro, coin, missouri, raid, kansas, illinois, colorado, kentucky, bank, confederate, sound.

Words that rhyme with sterling:
curling, yearling, hurling, stirling, swirling, whirling, pearling, purling, twirling, unfurling, sperling, merling, burling, werling, spurling, gerling, herling, leg curling, durling, berling, serling, der ling, eurosterling, girl hung, swerling.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sterling:
fausto, british, worth, english, several, old, more, forward, transferable, poor, pence, firth, most, free, convertible, cheap, non, pound, dear, late, less, half, quite, additional, miss, strange, inconvertible, equal, day, marquez, rupee, enough, resident, gold, one, solid, rugged, nominal, vis, penny, nearest, yearly, noble, four, younger, extra, weak, million, elder, halfpence, affectionate, metallic, quarter, mount, beloved, cool, saxpence, month.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective sterling:
qualities, balances, countries, silver, area, rate, worth, money, sense, character, bills, deposits, traits, exchange, assets, reserves, securities, crisis, virtues, areas, value, examples, loans, gold, holdings, liabilities, characters, bonds, credits, rates, standard, crises, debts, market, stuff, currencies, quality, bloc, funds, pounds, debt, merit, balance, drafts, coin, loan, accounts, english, credentials, service, payments, prices, currency, honesty, contract, price, integrity, companies, convertibility, reputation, dollar, markets, ratio, principles, transactions, merits, parity, metal, reputations, heart, futures, notes, performances, performance, characteristics, pound, friends, imports, obligations, devaluation, link, wit, bookmark, mark, sum, flatware, silverware, fellows, investments, claims.

Consonant match to sterling:
stalling, stealing, stirling, styling, steeling, staling, stooling, stilling, stelling, stehling, still hung.

Words that sound like sterling:
sterling, stirling, string, stealing, styling, stalling, stirring, swirling, strolling, starling, steeling, stilling, stelling, swerling, strewing, sterlings, easterling, strawing, strung, streng, strong, strang, straying, staling, spurling, starlin, sperling, stooling, skirling, stir in, stalin, strum, stollen, strem, stallon, struan, stellen, stillen, straughan, strahlen, stehlen, stirless, stinging, stringing, ceiling, sting, searching, staring, soaring, selling, sailing, sling, settling, sizzling, steering, starring, cieling, circling, sealing, searing, stifling, startling, stallone, sirloin, stewing, celling, snarling, soring, stashing, souring, saling, sparling, seeling, sorrowing, stirrings, g-string, starlings, siling, stallings, salling, seiling, siring, seling, stirrage, gstring, stealings, starching, spurlin, stallage, stillage, spirling, soling, stilting, stillings, sewer line, stearl, stickling, esterline, star line, fosterling.