coinage

[ koi-nij ]
See synonyms for coinage on Thesaurus.com
noun
  1. the act, process, or right of making coins.

  2. the categories, types, or quantity of coins issued by a nation.

  1. coins collectively; currency.

  2. the act or process of inventing words; neologizing.

  3. an invented or newly created word or phrase: “Ecdysiast” is a coinage of H. L. Mencken.

  4. anything made, invented, or fabricated.

Origin of coinage

1
First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English word from Middle French word coignaige.See coin, -age

Other words from coinage

  • mis·coin·age, noun
  • non·coin·age, noun
  • re·coin·age, noun

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024

How to use coinage in a sentence

  • Hence, both the Vey and the Cherokee, the two latest coinages in the way of alphabets, are both syllabic.

  • There is, indeed, but a shadowy boundary in these new coinages between the various parts of speech.

    The American Language | Henry L. Mencken
  • The spirit of the language appears scarcely less clearly in some of the coinages of the other classes.

    The American Language | Henry L. Mencken
  • Like all Tommy's word-coinages it was a good one and spread into common use.

    G. H. Q. | Frank Fox
  • Many coinages of the pre-Revolutionary era later disappeared.

    The American Language | Henry L. Mencken

British Dictionary definitions for coinage

coinage

/ (ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ) /


noun
  1. coins collectively

  2. the act of striking coins

  1. the currency of a country

  2. the act of inventing something, esp a word or phrase

  3. a newly invented word, phrase, usage, etc

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012