Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wampum

2 senses of wampum

Sense 1
boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum -- (informal terms for money)
       => money -- (the most common medium of exchange; functions as legal tender; "we tried to collect the money he owed us")

Sense 2
wampum, peag, wampumpeag -- (small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency)
       => beads, string of beads -- (several beads threaded together on a string)