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Definition of 'coin'English
Noun
( en-noun)
(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
- ...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight...
A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).
(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
* Hammond
- The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin .
One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge.
Derived terms
* coinage
Verb
( en-verb)
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture.
- to coin''' silver dollars; to '''coin a medal
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate.
- Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined .
* Dryden
- Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined , / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
* John Locke
- Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
Similar to 'coin'can, cyan, chain, chin, chan, con, conn, coon, cion, chaun, cowan, cun, cien, cohen, chon, choon, cyun, cyen, cyon, coown, coun, cowen, coyn, coion
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