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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LU'CRE, n. lu'ker. [L. lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; usually in an ill sense, or with the sense of something base or unworthy.
The lust of lucre, and the dread of death.
A bishop must be blameless - not given to filthy lucre. Titus 1.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum]
2: the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) [syn: net income, net, net profit, lucre, profit, profits, earnings]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin lucrum; probably akin to Old English l?an reward, Old High German l?n, Greek apolauein to enjoy Date: 14th century monetary gain ; profit <wrote almost entirely for lucre>; also money

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. derog. financial profit or gain. Phrases and idioms: filthy lucre see FILTHY. Etymology: ME f. F lucre or L lucrum

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Lucre Lu"cre, n. [F. lucre, L. lucrum.] Gain in money or goods; profit; riches; -- often in an ill sense. The lust of lucre and the dread of death. --Pope.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

People sometimes refer to money or profit as lucre, especially when they think that it has been obtained by dishonest means. (HUMOROUS or OLD-FASHIONED) ...so they can feel less guilty about their piles of filthy lucre. [disapproval]

Easton's Bible Dictionary

from the Lat. lucrum, "gain." 1 Tim. 3:3, "not given to filthy lucre." Some MSS. have not the word so rendered, and the expression has been omitted in the Revised Version.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

lu'-ker, loo'-ker (betsa'>; kerdos): Literally, "gain" (1Sa 8:3; Tit 1:7), hence, in the New Testament always qualified by "filthy" (1Ti 3:8, "not greedy of filthy lucre" aischrokerdes; so Tit 1:7). The adverb is found in 1Pe 5:2 (see also Tit 1:11). In 1Ti 3:3, the Revised Version (British and American) changes the King James Version to "no lover of money" (@aphilarguros).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Gain, profit, emolument, pelf, riches, wealth, mammon, greed.

Moby Thesaurus

affluence, and pence, assets, bottomless purse, bulging purse, capital gains, cash, circulating medium, cleanup, clear profit, coinage, coined liberty, cold cash, currency, dividends, dollars, dough, earnings, easy circumstances, embarras de richesses, emergency money, filthy lucre, fortune, fractional currency, gain, gains, get, gettings, gleanings, gold, greenbacks, gross, gross profit, handsome fortune, hard cash, hard currency, high income, high tax bracket, hoard, income, independence, interest, jack, kale, killing, legal tender, lettuce, loot, luxuriousness, makings, mammon, managed currency, material wealth, mazuma, medium of exchange, mintage, money, money to burn, moneybags, neat profit, necessity money, net, net profit, opulence, opulency, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, possessions, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, proceeds, profit, profits, property, prosperity, prosperousness, rake-off, receipts, return, returns, riches, richness, scrip, shillings, silver, six-figure income, soft currency, specie, sterling, store, substance, take, take-in, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, treasure, upper bracket, wealth, wealthiness, winnings