coinage
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coinage
- /ˈkɔɪnɪd͡ʒ/
Rhymes with -ɔɪnɪdʒ
Where it comes from
Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier. By surface analysis, coin + -age.
noun coinages
- The process of coining money.
- Coins taken collectively; currency. He […] threw himself on a sopha opposite the copy of a bust of the Apollo Belvidere. After one or two trivial remarks, to which I sullenly replied, he suddenly cried, looking at the bust, “I am called like that victor! Not a bad idea; the head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dut
- The creation of new words, neologizing. Caution needs to be exercised in regards to claims of coinage as the data contained a number of examples of writers professing the invention of a term that had actually been in existence for many years.
- Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism. As for Nash his chief aim seems to have been to vilify ; he by no means troubled himself about consistency. In Christ’s Tears over Jerusalem we find more strange expressious than he could have got out of all Harvey’s works, of which the following may serve as samples : callichrimate, Works, IV, 51 ;
- The process of creating something new.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: mintage, neology, neologism, specie, metal money, mint, coin, currency, money, series, strike, printing, hit, knock, coins, currencies
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noun process of coining money
| Español | acuñación |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 貨幣鋳造 kahei chūzō |
| 中文 | 貨幣制度 /货币制度 huòbì zhìdù |
| Português | cunhagem |
| Français | frappe (de la monnaie) |
| Deutsch | Münzprägung |
| Italiano | conio |
| Русский | чека́нка čekánka |
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title = {coinage},
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