coin

Speech parts

1. coin - Noun

2. coin - Verb

3. Coin - Proper noun

Meaning

A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin.

A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense.

That which serves for payment or recompense.

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.

To manufacture counterfeit money.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

mint strike change money create piece cash currency manufacture originate coinage formulate devise invent specie
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Antonyms

playbill nib big money close bill mandible
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Hypernyms

coinage specie mintage create from raw material create from raw stuff create verbally

Hyponyms

eagle guinea sou tanner crown penny

Phrases with the word

coin a phrase small copper coin on the toss of a coin the other side of the coin coin money coin-operated laundry

Derivatives

coined coining

Anagrams

cion icon Cino Nico

Examples

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin. Ambrose Bierce

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. Joseph Conrad

Coin a phrase. Dutch Proverb

You never lose a false coin. Yiddish Proverb

Where coin is not common, provisions can be scant. English Proverb

Close letter words and terms

coimplantation coimplanted coimpregnated coin a phrase coin a term coin bank