change

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The act or result of something becoming different.

   There has been a big change in the weather.

2. 2
   noun

   The money you get back when you pay more than the cost.

   I paid with a twenty and got my change.

3. 3
   noun

   Coins, rather than paper money.

   I had some change in my pocket for the bus.

Common collocations

• change clothes Verb + noun
• change a life Verb + noun
• change one's name Verb + noun
• change position Verb + noun
• change the world Verb + noun
• change your mind Verb + noun
• make a change Verb + noun
• climate change Adjective + noun
• dramatic change Adjective + noun
• gradual change Adjective + noun
• major change Adjective + noun
• change sides Verb + noun

From Middle English changen, chaungen, from Old French changier, from Late Latin cambiāre, from Latin cambīre (“to exchange, barter”), derived from the noun cambium (“change”) (whence was loaned the English doublet cambium), from Gaulish cambion, earlier *kambyom (“change”), related to Proto-Celtic *kambos (“twisted, crooked”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱh₂(e)mbos, *(s)kh₂(e)mbos (“crooked”). More at skimp, scam; see also Proto-Indo-European *kh₂em-. Cognate with Italian cambiare, Portuguese cambiar, Romanian schimba, Sicilian canciari, Spanish cambiar. Used in English since the 13…

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