wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary
(noun) something that remunerates; “wages were paid by check”; “he wasted his pay on drink”; “they saved a quarter of all their earnings”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
salary (plural salaries)
A fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually calculated on a monthly or annual basis, not hourly, as wages. Implies a degree of professionalism and/or autonomy.
salary (third-person singular simple present salaries, present participle salarying, simple past and past participle salaried)
To pay on the basis of a period of a week or longer, especially to convert from another form of compensation.
salary (comparative more salary, superlative most salary)
(obsolete) Saline.
Source: Wiktionary
Sal"a*ry, a. Etym: [L. salarius.]
Definition: Saline [Obs.]
Sal"a*ry, n.; pl. Salaries. Etym: [F. salarie, L. salarium, originally, salt money, the money given to the Roman soldiers for salt, which was a part of thir pay, fr. salarius belonging to salt, fr. sal salt. See Salt.]
Definition: The recompense or consideration paid, or stipulated to be paid, to a person at regular intervals for services; fixed wages, as by the year, quarter, or month; stipend; hire. This is hire and salary, not revenge. Shak.
Note: Recompense for services paid at, or reckoned by, short intervals, as a day or week, is usually called wages.
Syn.
– Stipend; pay; wages; hire; allowance.
Sal"a*ry v. t. [imp. & p. p. Salaried; p. pr. & vb. n. Salarying.]
Definition: To pay, or agree to pay, a salary to; to attach salary to; as, to salary a clerk; to salary a position.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 March 2025
(noun) fixation (as by a plaster cast) of a body part in order to promote proper healing; “immobilization of the injured knee was necessary”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
