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Webster 1913 Edition


Coinage

Coin′age

,
Noun.
[From
Coin
,
Verb.
T.
, cf.
Cuinage
.]
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

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Definition 2024


coinage

coinage

English

Noun

coinage (countable and uncountable, plural coinages)

  1. The process of coining money.
  2. (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
  3. (uncountable) The creation of new words, neologizing.
  4. (countable) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
  5. 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.

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