coin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔɪn/
note: Appalachians, obsolete
ipa: /kwaɪn/
rhymes: -ɔɪn
homophone: coign
homophone: quoin
Forms: form: coins
form: coining
form: coined
form: coined
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.
Senses: examples: text: to coin silver dollars
text: to coin a medal
text: Many persons believe that the so-called "dollar of the daddies," weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of "16 to 1" in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.
ref: 1898 September 23, Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr., “Curiosities of American Coinage”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 53, D. Appleton & Company, page 601:
synonyms: mint
manufacture
glosses: To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
examples: text: Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.
text: Not fearing outward force: So ſhall my Lungs / Coine words till their decay, againſt thoſe Meazels
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 15:
text: Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
ref: 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 1:
text: As a result, men turn to the women in their lives to fulfill their emotional needs. Ferrara and her coauthor are not the first to suggest that women bear the burden of mankeeping (although they did coin the term).
ref: 2024 October 23, Kim Elsesser, “Mankeeping: How Shrinking Male Social Networks May Burden Women”, in Forbes:
text: According to Collins Dictionary and Wiktionary, the term was coined in 2017 by journalist Anzer Ayoob, the term Chenabi is derived from the Chenab River, with the suffix “-i”, commonly used to denote belonging.
ref: 2025 July 24, Mubasher Sharief Pathan, “Chenab Valley United”, in Precious Kashmir, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2025:
synonyms: invent
originate
mint
glosses: To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
examples: text: [...] Tenants cannot coin their Rent juſt at Quarter-day, but muſt gather it up by degrees, and lodge it with them till Pay-day, or borrow it of thoſe who have it lying by them, [...]
ref: 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692, →OCLC, page 36:
glosses: To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Derived terms: word: coinable
word: coin a phrase
word: coiner
word: coin it
word: miscoined
alt: newcoin
word: new-coin
word: recoin
word: uncoin
word: uncoined