coinage
[koi-nij]
- the act, process, or right of making coins.
- the categories, types, or quantity of coins issued by a nation.
- coins collectively; currency.
- the act or process of inventing words; neologizing.
- an invented or newly created word or phrase: “Ecdysiast” is a coinage of H. L. Mencken.
- anything made, invented, or fabricated.
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Origin of coinage
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Contemporary Examples
Early on, I took to calling this doctrine belief in the “confidence fairy,” a coinage that seems to have stuck.
Remember his coinage “Obamneycare,” which he used in debates starting last June?
But I feel that were I to accept the award, it would ultimately debase the coinage of the medal.
Historical Examples
Now a mint was set up in Eden Vale, and the coinage underwent a reform.
FreelandTheodor Hertzka
Then he has mines of silver and copper, and the King has given him the care of the coinage.
Two Penniless PrincessesCharlotte M. Yonge
It was, indeed, a realm where this coinage did not circulate.
Lord KilgobbinCharles Lever
There's many a coinage costlier than ever the mint fashioned; he may requite me thus.
Roland CashelCharles James Lever
The money, the coinage, perhaps, is the great reminder after all.
The Bramleighs Of Bishop's FollyCharles James Lever
coinage
- coins collectively
- the act of striking coins
- the currency of a country
- the act of inventing something, esp a word or phrase
- a newly invented word, phrase, usage, etc
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Word Origin and History for coinage
n.
late 14c., "currency, money," from Old French coignage, from coignier "to coin" (see coin (n.)). Meaning "act or proces of coining money" is from early 15c.; sense "deliberate formation of a new word" is from 1690s, from a general sense of "something invented" (c.1600).
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