earn ərn/Submit verb (of a person) obtain (money) in return for labor or services. "they earn $35 per hour" synonyms: be paid, take home, gross, net; More (of an activity or action) cause (someone) to obtain (money). "this latest win earned them $50,000 in prize money" (of capital invested) gain (money) as interest or profit. I now get it why strange coins are called "coins" and not strange shards or strange energy. A coin is money, which is "earned" I bought my last word pistol from coins I earned. So I earned the last word. Now I can make a post on the forum saying I earned my last word too!