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Definition: Coinage |
CoinageNoun1. Coins collectively. 2. A newly invented word or phrase. 3. The act of inventing a word or phrase. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "coinage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Note: Coinage \Coin"age\, noun. [From Coin, transitive verb, compare to Cuinage.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: CoinageSynonyms: metal money (n), mintage (n), neologism (n), neology (n), specie (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imagination | Conception, Vorstellung, excogitation, "a fine frenzy"; cloudland, dreamland; flight of fancy, fumes of fancy; "thick coming fancies"; creation of the brain, coinage of the brain; imagery. |
Production | Noun: {ant., } production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; Verb: establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement; (completion). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Coinage |
| English words defined with "coinage": Billon, Brassage ♦ Moneyage ♦ Remedy of the mint ♦ Scissel. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "coinage": Besants, BiCapitalisation, BiCapitalization ♦ computer literacy ♦ machoflops, malleable nickel ♦ Rig-Marie ♦ silver minerals, snail-mail. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "coinage": Ace ♦ Moneyage ♦ transmogrify. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Some Western freak coinage. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Father Coughlin before coinage committee. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Vending machine; coke; soda; snack; exact change; coin; coinage; coins; dime; nickel; quarter. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | There has also been a small beginning in the coinage of half dimes, the want of small coins in circulation calling the first attention to them. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Connected with the condition of the finances and the flourishing state of the country in all its branches of industry, it is pleasing to witness the advantages which have been already derived from the recent laws regulating the value of the gold coinage. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Coinage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 97.70% of the time. "Coinage" is used about 261 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 97.7% | 255 | 18,554 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.3% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 261 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "coinage": coinage of the brain ♦ Free coinage ♦ word coinage. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
coinage | 51 |
coinage magazine | 6 |
coinage roman | 6 |
coinage magazine subscription | 3 |
roman imperial coinage | 3 |
coinage metal | 2 |
ancient coinage roman | 2 |
united state coinage | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "coinage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shprehje e sajuar, prerje monedhash, monedhë (chip, coin, currency, currency unit, mag, piece, shekel, shilling, small coin), fjalë e sajuar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سك العملة (mint, minuend, monetize, stamp out), عملة (coin, coins, currency, money, peso), ضرب العملة (coin, mint). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сечене на монети (mintage), монетна система. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 币. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | ražba (mintage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | moentpraegning (coining), moentpraeg (coining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | muntslag (coining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مسکوکات , ضربه سکه , ابداع واژه . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | monnayage (coining), monnaie (coins, colon), frappe de monnaie (coining), frappe, batte. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | prägung (character, coining, embossing, minting, Mold, molding, print, shaping, stamping, strike, striking, tooling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεολογισμόσ (neologism), νομισματικό σύστημα χώρασ, νομισματοκοπή, νομισματοκοπία (mintage), εκτύπωση νομίσματος (coining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שיטת "מטבע. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pénzverés, kovácsolás, törvényes pénzrendszer, kovácsolt szó, kovácsolt kifejezés, kitalált szó, kitalált kifejezés, kitalálás (fabrication, fiction, framing, guessing), új szóalkotás, alkotás (constitution, creation, work), éremverés, ércpénz (hard cash, hard money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coniatura (mintage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 貨幣 (currency, money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぞうへい (manufacture of arms, military reinforcement, mintage), かへい (currency, flower pattern, money, small army force), ちゅうか (China, Middle Kingdom, midsummer, mintage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 주". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kiaddey (coining, design, designing, fashion, father, form, formation, model, modelling, shape), croo (appearance, build, coining, create, creation, father, form, format, invent, phase of moon, shape), cooinaghyn, bwoalley argid (coining money, minting), argid (exchequer, finance, money, silver, wages). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oinagecay cunhagem de moeda (coining), cunhagem (fabrication, incuse, mintage), sistema monetário (fabrication, monetary system), palavra inventada (fabrication), moedagem (mintage), invenção (contrivance, device, excogitation, fabrication, fiction, figment, finding, flam, gadget, invention, mintage, origination), fabricação (fabrication, making, manifacture, manufacture). (various references) creare (building, creation, institution, making, organization), sistem monetar, inventare (concoction, invention), fabricare de bani (mintage), batere de monedã. (various references) чеканка (mintage, stamping). (various references) kovanje (mintage, minting), kovanica, kovani novac. (various references) acuñación (mintage). (various references) myntprägling. (various references) เงินเหรียญ (specie), การบัญญัติศัพท์, การผลิตเหรียญ, ระบบเงินเหรียญ, ศัพท์ใหม่. (various references) yeni sözcük, uyduruk deyim, uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabrication, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), tedavüldeki para (hard currency), para basma (mintage), madeni para sistemi. (various references) чеканка. (various references) sự đúc tiền tiền đúc hệ thống tiền tệ sự tạo ra. (various references) bathiad (coining). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | moneta. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "coinage": coinages. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "coinage": recoinage. (additional references) | |
Words containing "coinage": recoinages. (additional references) | |
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"Coinage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cienega, coelage, condage, Connagh, Kaminaga, Koinange, Oxnageo, seoi-nage. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "coinage" (pronounced koy"nij) |
| 3 | -n i j | carnage, linage, micromanage, mismanage, parsonage, patronage, signage. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-o" | |
-1 letter: aeonic, agonic, coigne, incage. | |
-2 letters: acing, agone, canoe, coign, conga, conge, genic, genoa, gonia, incog, ocean. | |
-3 letters: acne, aeon, agin, agio, agon, cage, cain, cane, ciao, cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, gaen, gain, gane, gien, gone, icon, naoi, nice, once. | |
-4 letters: ace, age, ago, ain, ane, ani, can, cig, cog, con, ego, eng, eon. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-o" | |
+1 letter: cameoing, canoeing, coinages, gynoecia. | |
+2 letters: abiogenic, allogenic, autogenic, beaconing, coheading, coleading, collegian, congenial, cousinage, deaconing, egomaniac, genocidal, geomantic, ignorance, poignance, recoaling, recoinage. | |
+3 letters: allogeneic, androgenic, angiogenic, archegonia, audiogenic, becloaking, carcinogen, cariogenic, cinemagoer, coagencies, coalescing, coannexing, coarsening, cocreating, coenacting, coequating, cognizable, cognizance, collegians, concealing, congealing, congenital, corelating, corrigenda, cousinages, cyanogenic, decorating, egomaniacs, enological, escaloping, geobotanic, geomancies, glauconite, iatrogenic, iceboating, ignorances, lactogenic, megaphonic, oceangoing, opalescing, overacting, paedogenic, pathogenic, peacocking, poignances, radiogenic, recoinages, relocating, saprogenic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6F 69 6E 61 67 65 |
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. --- .. -. .- --. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101111 01101001 01101110 01100001 01100111 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C o i n a g e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006F 0069 006E 0061 0067 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37817580677371 |
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