income

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Money one earns by working or by capitalising on the work of others.

   The struggle with ways and means had recommenced, more difficult now a hundredfold than it had been before, because of their increasing needs. Their income disappeared as a little rivulet that is swallowed by the thirsty ground.

2. 2
   noun

   A coming in; arrival; entrance; introduction.

   more abundant incomes of light and strength from God

3. 3
   noun

   A coming in as by influx or inspiration, hence, an inspired quality or characteristic, as courage or zeal; an inflowing principle.

   I would then make in indeed and steep / My income in their bloods.

4. 4
   noun

   the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time

5. 5
   noun

   Money coming in to a fund, account, or policy.

6. 6
   noun

   A newcomer or arrival; an incomer.

7. 7
   noun

   An entrance-fee.

8. 8
   noun

   A disease or ailment without known or apparent cause, as distinguished from one induced by accident or contagion; an oncome.

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”).