Cheap Definition
Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
(obsolete) To sell.
- Extremely inexpensive.
- By inexpensive means; cheaply:
traveled to Europe on the cheap.
- at very little cost; cheaply
Other Word Forms of Cheap
Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Cheap
- cheap at twice the price
- on the cheap
- on the cheap
Origin of Cheap
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From Middle English cheep, chepe / chepen, chep, cheap / cheapien, chapien, from Old English cēap (“cattle, purchase, sale, traffic, business, bargain, gain, payment, value, price, goods, possessions, property, market, saleable commodities, trade”), ċēapian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade, to contract for the purchase or sale of, buy, bribe, endeavor to bribe”), from Proto-Germanic *kaupaz, *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, *kaupijaną (“to buy, purchase”), from Latin caupo (“tradesman, innkeeper, huckster”), cauponari (“to traffic, trade”), caupo (“tradesman, inn-keeper”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaup-, *ḱaup-, *kwap-, *ḱwap- (“merchant”), related to Ancient Greek κάπηλος (kápēlos, “huckster”). Cognate with Scots chepe (“to sell”), chape (“sale price”), North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquisition”), Dutch koop (“buy, purchase, deal”), kopen (“to buy, purchase, shop”), Low German kopen (“to buy”), German Kauf (“trade, traffic, bargain, purchase, buy”), kaufen (“to buy”), Swedish köp (“bargain, purchase”), köpa (“to buy, purchase”), Icelandic kaup (“purchase, bargain”), kaupa (“to purchase”), Finnish kauppa (“shop”).
From Wiktionary
From Middle English (god) chep (good) price, purchase, bargain from Old English cēap trade from Latin caupō shopkeeper
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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