income

Meanings

Plural: incomes

Noun

the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time
Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.
Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.
A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.
A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.
An entrance-fee.
A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.
A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.
That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English income, perhaps continuing (in altered form) Old English incyme (“an in-coming, entrance”), equivalent to in- + come. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Íenkúumen (“income”), West Frisian ynkommen (“income”), Dutch inkomen, inkomst (“income, earnings, gainings”), German Low German Inkumst (“income”), German Einkommen, Einkunft (“income, earnings, competence”), Danish indkomst (“income”), Swedish inkomst (“income”), Icelandic innkváma (“income”).

Antonyms

outgo

Scrabble Score: 10

income is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
income is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
income is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

income is a valid Words With Friends word