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Webster 1913 Edition
Coinage
1.
The act or process of converting metal into money.
The care of the
coinage
was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.
2.
Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
3.
The cost or expense of coining money.
4.
The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
“Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.” Dryden.
This is the very
coinage
of your brain. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Coinage
COINAGE
,Definition 2025
coinage
coinage
English
Noun
coinage (countable and uncountable, plural coinages)
- The process of coining money.
- (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
- (uncountable) The creation of new words, neologizing.
- (countable) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
- The process of creating something new.
- Shelley, Mary, Template:The Last Man
- The head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success.
- Shelley, Mary, Template:The Last Man
Translations
process of coining money
currency — see currency
neologizing — see neologize
neologism — see neologism