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coin

(kɔɪn)
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense coins, present participle coining, past tense, past participle coined
1. countable noun
A coin is a small piece of metal which is used as money.
...50 pence coins.
...Frederick's gold coin collection.
Synonyms: money, change, cash, silver More Synonyms of coin
2. verb
If you coin a word or a phrase, you are the first person to say it.
Jaron Lanier coined the term 'virtual reality' and pioneered its early development. [VERB noun]
3. verb [usually cont]
If you say that someone is coining it or is coining money, you are emphasizing that they are making a lot of money very quickly, often without really earning it.
[informal, emphasis]
Many private colleges are coining it. [VERB it]
One wine shop is coining money selling Wembley-label champagne. [VERB noun]
Coining in means the same as coining.
4. 
See to coin a phrase
5. 
See the other side of the coin
6. 
See two sides of the same coin
More Synonyms of coin

coin in British English

(kɔɪn)
noun
1. 
a metal disc or piece used as money
2. 
metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc
▶ Related adjective: nummary
3.  architecture a variant spelling of quoin
4.  pay someone back in his or her own coin
5.  the other side of the coin
verb
6. (transitive)
to make or stamp (coins)
7. (transitive)
to make into a coin
8. (transitive)
to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
9. (transitive) informal
to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in)
10.  to coin a phrase
Derived forms
coinable (ˈcoinable)
adjective
coiner (ˈcoiner)
noun
Word origin
C14: from Old French: stamping die, from Latin cuneus wedge

coin in American English

(kɔɪn)
noun
1.  Archaic
quoin
2. 
a. 
a usually round piece of metal with a distinctive stamp, and of a fixed value and weight, issued by a government as money
b. 
such pieces collectively
3.  Slang
money
adjective
4. 
requiring, or containing machines requiring, one or more coins for operation
a coin laundry
verb transitive
5. 
a. 
to make (coins) by stamping metal
b. 
to make (metal) into coins
6. 
to make up; devise; invent (a new word or phrase)
verb intransitive
7. 
to make coins
8.  British
to make counterfeit money
Idioms:
coin money
pay a person back in the same coin
Derived forms
coiner (ˈcoiner)
noun
Word origin
ME < OFr coin, coigne, a wedge, stamp, corner < L cuneus, a wedge < IE base *kū-, pointed > OIr cuil, L culex, gnat, Avestan sū-kā, needle

More idioms containing
coin

pay someone back in their own coin
the other side of the coin
to coin a phrase
two sides of the same coin

Image of
coin

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Examples of 'coin' in a sentence
coin

They will guess maybe one or two coins.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Always seeing both sides of the coin?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Then the news comes through - and what remains are a very small number of coins.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
What makes a coin collectible?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Inside were some gold coins.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Yet you don't need to buy rare, old coins to make money.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As time passed these coins went back into bags and boxes and were forgotten about until I rediscovered them after my grandad passed away.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
This is the other side of the coin and one which, for politically correct reasons, it is more difficult to address.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A CHURCH thief was caught after being seen shoving notes and coins from the collection down the front of his pants.
The Sun (2016)
Or are you always finding coins down the back of the sofa?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Now the first stash of gold coins is expected to be brought to the surface within weeks.
The Sun (2007)
It can be as realistic as you like with price tags and money from a coin jar.
The Sun (2010)
He made the coins but did not make a mint.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Reality is to be found in acknowledging that a coin has two sides.
Pearson, Althea Growing Through Loss and Grief (1994)
More than a quarter of a million dollars was spent on a rare coin collection.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
But there was a chronic shortage of small coins.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
And who else coined so many phrases?
The Sun (2016)
This was the bright side of the coin called property.
Andro Linklater MEASURING AMERICA (2002)
Keeping a pile of gold coins by your bed can increase your wealth.
The Sun (2006)
At first the divers thought the coins were toy money.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Only two other coins of its kind are in existence.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They are two sides of the coin.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He coined a phrase which continues to epitomise the theological way in which to understand the fact of an evolutionary world.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
And it is mostly small coins.
The Sun (2013)
It took just minutes at a time to make 12 coins which were then sprayed gold.
The Sun (2012)
I have read there was a time when people exchanged leather tokens, for want of metal coins.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Now they wanted the solidity, the reassurance, of metal coins.
Malcolm Balen A VERY ENGLISH DECEIT: The Secret History of the South Sea Bubble and the First GreatFinancial Scandal (2002)
Little tokens of frozen value, worthless pieces of coin, become sources of identity.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Each week they removed all loose coins and currency (not in offering envelopes) and split it between them.
Christianity Today (2000)

In other languages
coin

British English: coin /kɔɪn/ NOUN
A coin is a small piece of metal used as money.
...a few loose coins.
  • American English: coin
  • Arabic: عُمْلَة مَعْدِنِيَّة
  • Brazilian Portuguese: moeda
  • Chinese: 硬币
  • Croatian: kovanica
  • Czech: mince
  • Danish: mønt
  • Dutch: muntstuk
  • European Spanish: moneda pieza
  • Finnish: kolikko
  • French: pièce argent
  • German: Münze
  • Greek: νόμισμα
  • Italian: moneta
  • Japanese: 硬貨
  • Korean: 동전
  • Norwegian: mynt
  • Polish: moneta
  • European Portuguese: moeda
  • Romanian: monedă
  • Russian: монета
  • Latin American Spanish: moneda
  • Swedish: mynt
  • Thai: เหรียญ
  • Turkish: madeni para
  • Ukrainian: монета
  • Vietnamese: tiền xu
British English: coin VERB
If you coin a word or a phrase, you are the first person to say it.
He coined the term 'virtual reality' and pioneered its early development.
  • American English: coin
  • Brazilian Portuguese: cunhar
  • Chinese: 创造新词语
  • European Spanish: acuñar
  • French: inventer
  • German: prägen
  • Italian: coniare
  • Japanese: >作り出す新しい言葉を
  • Korean: 신조어를 만들다
  • European Portuguese: cunhar
  • Latin American Spanish: acuñar

All related terms of 'coin'

coin-op
a launderette or other service installation in which the machines are operated by the insertion of coins
coin box
the part of a coin-operated machine into which coins are placed
coin money
to earn or accumulate wealth rapidly
pound coin
a British coin with a value of one pound sterling
coin changer
a machine that gives change rapidly, as to a customer , typically operated by a manual keyboard and often used in association with a cash register
coin machine
a coin-operated machine, esp. one for dispensing soft drinks, cigarettes , candy , etc
coin-operated
(of a machine) operated by the insertion of a coin
Britannia coin
any of four British gold coins introduced in 1987 for investment purposes; their denominations are £100, £50, £25, and £10
divisional coin
a coin having a value smaller than a country's main monetary unit
subsidiary coin
a coin of denomination smaller than that of the standard monetary unit
to coin a phrase
You say ' to coin a phrase ' to show that you realize you are making a pun or using a cliché.
coin of the realm
See legal tender
the other side of the coin
You use the other side of the coin to mention a different aspect of a situation .
two sides of the same coin
If you say that two things are two sides of the same coin , you mean that they are different ways of looking at or dealing with the same situation.
pay a person back in the same coin
to treat a person in the same way the person treated oneself
pay someone back in their own coin
to treat someone in exactly the same, bad way that they have treated you
pay someone back in his or her own coin
to treat a person in the way that he or she has treated others

Chinese translation of 'coin'

coin

(kɔɪn)

n (c)

  1. 硬币(幣) (yìngbì) (枚, méi)

vt

  1. [word, slogan] 创(創)造 (chuàngzào)
(noun) 
Definition
metal currency collectively
My pocket was full of coins.
Synonyms
money
A lot of money that you pay goes back to the distributor.
change
Do you have any change for the parking meter?
cash
I'm a bit short of cash this month.
silver
copper
dosh (British, Australian, slang)
specie
wonga (slang)
kembla (Australian, slang)
1 (verb) 
Definition
to invent (a new word or phrase)
The phrase `cosmic ray' was coined by R. A. Millikan in 1925.
Synonyms
invent
He invented the first electric clock.
create
He's creating a whole new language of painting.
make up
frame
forge
They agreed to forge closer economic ties.
conceive
I began to conceive a plan of attack.
originate
No-one knows who originated this story.
formulate
He formulated his plan for escape.
fabricate
All four claim that the evidence against them is fabricated.
think up
2 (verb) 
Definition
to make or stamp (coins)
Synonyms
mint
The book comprises a lexicon of freshly minted descriptions.
mould

related words

related adjective nummary
related enthusiast numismatist

Additional synonyms

in the sense of cash
Definition
money
I'm a bit short of cash this month.
Synonyms
money,
change,
funds,
notes,
ready (informal),
the necessary (informal),
resources,
currency,
silver,
bread (slang),
coin,
tin (slang),
brass (NorthernEngland, dialect),
dough (slang),
rhino (British, slang),
banknotes,
bullion,
dosh (British, Australian, slang),
wherewithal,
coinage,
needful (informal),
specie,
shekels (informal),
wonga (slang),
dibs (slang),
ready money,
ackers (slang),
spondulicks (slang)
in the sense of change
Definition
coins of a small denomination
Do you have any change for the parking meter?
Synonyms
coins,
money,
small change,
loose change,
wonga (slang),
kembla (Australian, slang)
in the sense of conceive
Definition
to form in the mind
I began to conceive a plan of attack.
Synonyms
think up,
form,
produce,
create,
develop,
design,
project,
purpose,
devise,
formulate,
contrive

Synonyms of 'coin'

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