coin
Plural: coins
Noun
- a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
- A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
- A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
- That which serves for payment or recompense.
- Something in broad circulation or use.
- Money in general, not limited to coins.
- One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
- A corner or external angle.
- A small circular slice of food.
- Ellipsis of cryptocoin; a cryptocurrency.
Verb
Verb Forms: coined, coining, coins
- To invent a new word or phrase; to mint metal currency.
- make up
- "coin phrases or words"
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- "strike coins"
- To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
- To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
- To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Examples
- Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.
- She spent some serious coin on that car!
- The linguistics expert loved to COIN new terms for complex Scrabble strategies.
- to coin a medal
- to coin silver dollars
- What's the best coin to buy right now?
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
mint, strike, Bugs Bunny, ackers, bees and honey, blunt, brass, bread, bread and honey, cake, cheddar, cheese, ching, chip, clams, coin, cream, currency, dinero, dosh, dough, fedi, feds, finances, flizz, flow, funding, funds, gravy, gwolla, gwop, invent, jack, legal tender, lolly, lovely jubbly, manufacture, mazuma, means, money, moola, mozzarella, muck, oof, ooftish, originate, paper, quoin, rhino, scratch, scrilla, shrapnel, simoleons, smackeroonies, smackeroos, smackers, spend, spondulicks, swag, wampum, wedge, wonga, yenom
Scrabble Score: 6
coin: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordcoin: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
coin: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary