America is a lovely place to be, if you are here to earn money.
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Earn
//ɜːn//
Synonyms for "earn" (84 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (42)
Related word relations
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More general
2 entriesAntonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
27 entriesShowing 16 of 27 words.
etymologically related_to
2 entriesform of
1 entrieshas context
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
22 entriesShowing 16 of 22 words.
similar
5 entriesTranslations
132 translations across 54 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- μισθαρνέω verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Arabic
4 entries- اِسْتَحَقَّ verb (deserve)
- كسب verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- كسب verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- كَسَبَ verb (gain through applied effort or work)
Armenian
4 entries- աշխատել verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- ստանալ verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- վաստակել verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- վաստակել verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Aromanian
1 entries- amintu verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Basque
1 entries- irabazi verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Belarusian
2 entries- зарабля́ць verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- зарабі́ць verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Bhojpuri
1 entries- कमाईल verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Bulgarian
4 entries- зарабо́твам verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- зарабо́твам verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
- зарабо́тя verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- зарабо́тя verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Catalan
4 entries- cobrar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- guanyar verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- guanyar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- guanyar verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 值得 verb (deserve)
- 應受 /应受 verb (deserve)
- 掙 /挣 verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- 獲得 /获得 verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Czech
2 entries- vydělat verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- vydělávat verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Dutch
2 entries- verdienen verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- verdienen verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Eastern Min Chinese
1 entries- 掙 /挣 verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Esperanto
4 entries- enspezi verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- meriti verb (deserve)
- perlabori verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- perlabori verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Estonian
1 entries- teenima verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Finnish
4 entries- ansaita verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- ansaita verb (deserve)
- tienata verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- tienata verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
French
3 entries- gagner verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- gagner verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
- mériter verb (deserve)
Friulian
2 entries- vanzâ verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- vuadagnâ verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Galician
4 entries- gañar verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- gañar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- gañar verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
- merecer verb (deserve)
Georgian
2 entries- გამოიმუშავებს verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- შოულობს verb (gain through applied effort or work)
German
2 entries- verdienen verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- verdienen verb (deserve)
Greek
1 entries- κερδίζω verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Hindi
1 entries- कमाना verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Hungarian
1 entries- keres verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Indonesian
1 entries- berpenghasilan verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Ingrian
2 entries- teenata verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- teenata verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Irish
3 entries- cosain verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- cosain verb (deserve)
- tuill verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Italian
2 entries- guadagnare verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- guadagnare verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Japanese
3 entries- 値する verb (deserve)
- 得る verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- 稼ぐ verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Khmer
1 entries- ស៊ី verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Korean
1 entries- 벌다 verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Lao
1 entries- ຫາເງິນ verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Latin
2 entries- mereō verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- mereō verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Macedonian
2 entries- заработи verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- заработува verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Mongolian
1 entries- олох verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Norman
2 entries- gângni verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- gângni verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Polish
4 entries- zarabiać verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- zarabiać verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
- zarobić verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- zarobić verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Portuguese
4 entries- auferir verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- ganhar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- merecer verb (deserve)
- receber verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Quechua
1 entries- usachiy verb (gain through applied effort or work)
Romanian
2 entries- câștiga verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- câștiga verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Russian
4 entries- зараба́тывать verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- зараба́тывать verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- зараба́тывать verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
- зарабо́тать verb (gain through applied effort or work)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- coisinn verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Sicilian
2 entries- guadagnari verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- vadagnari verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Sindhi
1 entries- ڪَمائِڻُ verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Slovak
2 entries- zarobiť si verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- zarábať si verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Spanish
4 entries- conciliar verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- devengar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- ganar verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- ganar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Tamil
1 entries- சம்பாதி verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Telugu
2 entries- సంపాదించు verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- సంపాదించు verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Thai
2 entries- หาเงิน verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
- หาได้ verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Turkish
4 entries- hak etmek verb (gain through applied effort or work)
- kazandırmak verb (cause someone to receive money)
- kazanmak verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- para kazanmak verb (intransitive: receive money for working)
Ukrainian
2 entries- зароби́ти verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- заробля́ти verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Urdu
1 entries- کمانا verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Venetan
3 entries- ciapar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- davagnar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
- vadagnar verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Vietnamese
1 entries- kiếm verb (transitive: receive (money) for working)
Sample sentences
25 total sentences available.
Ill-gotten gains are short-lived. The only way to make real money is to earn every penny.
Source: tatoeba (28563)
Not bad. I can earn a good enough living.
Source: tatoeba (28608)
Money takes a long time to earn, but you can spend it in no time.
Source: tatoeba (64603)
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.