(word) coinage

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• Coinage — may refer to: coins, standardized as currency neologism, coinage of a new word COINage, numismatics magazine Tin coinage, a tax on refined tin ancestry Coinage, a board game See also Coining (disambiguation) Coin (disambiguation) …   Wikipedia

• word — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Written communication Nouns 1. word, term, expression, locution, linguistic unit or form, word form, lexeme; homonym, synonym, antonym, heteronym, homophone; syllable, monosyllable, polysyllable; stem,… …   English dictionary for students

• coinage — ► NOUN 1) coins collectively. 2) the action or process of producing coins. 3) a system or type of coins in use. 4) the invention of a new word or phrase. 5) a newly invented word or phrase …   English terms dictionary

• coinage — [koin′ij] n. [ME < OFr coignaige] 1. the act or process of coining 2. metal money; coins 3. a system of money or metal currency 4. an invented word or expression [laser is a recent coinage] …   English World dictionary

• coinage — late 14c., currency, money, from O.Fr. coignage, from coignier to coin (see COIN (Cf. coin)). 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… …   Etymology dictionary

• coinage — /koy nij/, n. 1. the act, process, or right of making coins. 2. the categories, types, or quantity of coins issued by a nation. 3. coins collectively; currency. 4. the act or process of inventing words; neologizing. 5. an invented or newly… …   Universalium

• coinage — UK [ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ] / US noun Word forms coinage : singular coinage plural coinages 1) [uncountable] the coins used in a particular country or in a particular period in history 2) [countable] a word or phrase that has recently been used for the first… …   English dictionary

• coinage — coin|age [ˈkɔınıdʒ] n 1.) [U] the system or type of money used in a country ▪ the gold coinage of the Roman empire 2.) a word or phrase that has been recently invented ▪ The phrase glass ceiling is a fairly recent coinage. 3.) [U] the invention… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• coinage — noun 1 (U) the system of money used in a country: Britain did not use decimal coinage until 1971. 2 (C) a word or phrase that has been recently invented: The phrase glass ceiling is a fairly recent coinage. 3 (U) the use of new words or phrases 4 …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• coinage — n. 1 the act or process of coining. 2 a coins collectively. b a system or type of coins in use (decimal coinage; bronze coinage). 3 an invention, esp. of a new word or phrase. Etymology: ME f. OF coigniage …   Useful english dictionary

• coinage — coin•age [[t]ˈkɔɪ nɪdʒ[/t]] n. 1) the act or process of making coins 2) the types or amount of coins issued by a nation 3) coins collectively 4) ling. the inventing of words 5) ling. an invented or created word or phrase: “Ecdysiast” is a coinage …   From formal English to slang