coin
noun
[ kɔɪn ]
• a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money.
• "she opened her purse and took out a coin"
Similar:
piece,
bit,
coins,
coinage,
coin of the realm,
(loose) change,
small change,
silver,
copper,
coppers,
gold,
specie,
coin
verb
• make (coins) by stamping metal.
• "guineas and half-guineas were coined"
Similar:
mint,
stamp,
stamp out,
strike,
cast,
punch,
die,
mould,
forge,
make,
manufacture,
produce,
• invent (a new word or phrase).
• "he coined the term ‘desktop publishing’"
Similar:
invent,
create,
make up,
devise,
conceive,
originate,
think up,
dream up,
formulate,
fabricate,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French coin ‘wedge, corner, die’, coigner ‘to mint’, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’. The original sense was ‘cornerstone’, later ‘angle or wedge’ (senses now spelled quoin); in late Middle English the term denoted a die for stamping money, or a piece of money produced by such a die.
