Definition of earn

"earn" in the verb sense

1. gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in

earn on some commercial or business transaction earn as salary or wages

"How much do you make a month in your new job?"

"She earns a lot in her new job"

"this merger brought in lots of money"

"He clears $5,000 each month"

2. earn, garner, win

acquire or deserve by one's efforts or actions

"its beauty won Paris the name 'City of Lights'"

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Quotations for earn

'Tis sweet to hear of heroes dead,
To know them still alive,
But sweeter if we earn their bread,
And in us they survive. [ Thomson ]

Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft, white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn. [ Lowell ]

Have I not earn'd my cake in baking of it? [ Alfred Tennyson ]

We make our fortunes, and we call them fate. [ Beaconsfield ]

Husbands can earn money, but only wives can save it. [ Proverb ]

Economy is half the battle of life; it is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. [ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon ]

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]

It is a beautiful self-denial for the affluent to set an example of neatness, plainness, and simplicity. Such an influence is peculiarly salutary in our state of society, where the large class of young females, who earn a subsistance by labor, are so addicted to the love of finery. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

To be honest, to be kind, to earn a little, and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not to be embittered, to keep a few friends, but these without capitulation; above all, on the same condition, to keep friends with himself: here is a task for all a man has of fortitude and delicacy. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

earn in Scrabble®

The word earn is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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earn in Words With Friends™

The word earn is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

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