coinage
pronunciation
How to pronounce coinage in British English:
UK [ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ]
How to pronounce coinage in American English:
US [ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- coins collectively
- a newly invented word or phrase
- the act of inventing a word or phrase
Word Origin
- coinage (n.)
- late 14c., "currency, money," from Old French coignage, from coignier "to coin" (see coin (n.)). Meaning "act or process of coining money" is from early 15c.; sense "deliberate formation of a new word" is from 1690s, from a general sense of "something invented" (c. 1600).
Synonym
Example
- 1. Qin shi huang unified measurements and coinage .
- 2. Greek cities kept greek municipal law and issued their own coinage .
- 3. Upstairs is a display of british coinage .
- 4. That word is a recent coinage .
- 5. The most prevalent offences were forgery and coinage , serious immigration offences , and miscellaneous thefts .