coinage
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EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French coignage, from coignier.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
coinage (countable and uncountable, plural coinages)
- The process of coining money.
- (uncountable) Coins taken collectively; currency.
- (uncountable, lexicography) The creation of new words, neologizing.
- (countable, lexicography) Something which has been made or invented, especially a coined word; a neologism.
- The process of creating something new.
- Shelley, Mary, Template:The Last Man
- The head will serve for my new coinage, and be an omen to all dutiful subjects of my future success.
- Shelley, Mary, Template:The Last Man
TranslationsEdit
process of coining money
currency — see currency
neologizing — see neologize
neologism — see neologism