coin
/ˈkoɪ̯n/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms coins coining coined
- noun (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
- noun A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
- noun (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
- noun (uncountable, figurative) Something in broad circulation or use.
- noun (uncountable, slang, UK, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins. “She spent some serious coin on that car!”
- noun (card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
- noun A corner or external angle.
- noun A small circular slice of food.
- verb To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal. “to coin silver dollars”
- verb (by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase). “Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.”
- verb To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
- proper noun A city in Iowa, United States.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States.
- proper noun A surname from French.
- proper noun A surname from Irish.; Alternative form of Coyne.
- proper noun A town and municipality in Malaga province, Andalusia, Spain.
Synonyms
shilling chip money ackers bees and honey blunt bones brass bread bread and honey Bugs Bunny cake cheddar cheese ching clams cream tender currency dinero mint strike
Etymology
From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.
Borrowed from French Coin. It could also be a variant of the surname Coyne from Irish.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wegde. See Coigne, and Quoin.
- noun A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; --much used in a collective sense.
- verb To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.
- verb To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
Etymology [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin, Cuneiform.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “coin”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details