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coinage
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun coinage has 3 senses
- coinage(n = noun.possession) metal money, mintage, specie - coins collectively; Array is a kind of currency
- coinage(n = noun.communication) neologism, neology - a newly invented word or phrase; Array is a kind of word
- coinage(n = noun.act) neologism, neology - the act of inventing a word or phrase; Array is a kind of invention
has particulars: coin
has particulars: blend, portmanteau, portmanteau word
Derived form verb coin1
Derived form verb coin1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The act or process of converting metal into money. [1913 Webster]"The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates." [1913 Webster]
- Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. [1913 Webster]
- The cost or expense of coining money. [1913 Webster]
- The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. Dryden. [1913 Webster]"This is the very coinage of your brain." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
coinage, n.
1 the act or process of coining.
2 a coins collectively. b a system or type of coins in use (decimal coinage; bronze coinage).
3 an invention, esp. of a new word or phrase.
1 the act or process of coining.
2 a coins collectively. b a system or type of coins in use (decimal coinage; bronze coinage).
3 an invention, esp. of a new word or phrase.
Etymology
ME f. OF coigniage
THESAURUS
coinage
and pence, artifact, authorship, beginning, brainchild, breakthrough, cash, child, circulating medium, coined liberty, coining, cold cash, composition, conception, concoction, contrivance, contriving, counterfeiting, creation, creative effort, creature, crowning achievement, currency, devising, discovery, distillation, dollars, effect, emergency money, end product, essence, extract, fabrication, filthy lucre, forgery, fractional currency, fruit, generation, ghost word, gold, handiwork, hard cash, hard currency, hatching, improvisation, innovation, introduction, invention, issue, leap, legal tender, lucre, making do, mammon, managed currency, manufacture, masterpiece, masterwork, medium of exchange, mintage, money, necessity money, neologism, neology, neoterism, new mintage, new phase, new sense, new word, newfangled expression, nonce word, novelty, offspring, opera, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, pelf, postage currency, postal currency, pounds, product, production, result, scrip, shillings, silver, soft currency, specie, stamping, sterling, striking, the almighty dollar, the wherewith, the wherewithal, workROGET THESAURUS
coinage
Production
N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.
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