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Grammar : Verb
Spell : koin
Phonetic Transcription : kɔɪn



Definition of coined

Origin :
  • c.1300, "a wedge," from Old French coing (12c.) "a wedge; stamp; piece of money; corner, angle," from Latin cuneus "a wedge." The die for stamping metal was wedge-shaped, and the English word came to mean "thing stamped, a piece of money" by late 14c. (a sense that already had developed in French). Cf. quoin, which split off from this word 16c. Modern French coin is "corner, angle, nook." Coins were first struck in western Asia Minor in 7c. B.C.E.; Greek tradition and Herodotus credit the Lydians with being first to make and use coins of silver and gold.
  • verb create, invent
Example sentences :
  • Golden cups, spoons, candlesticks, coined guineas—all the riches were revealed.
  • Extract from : « Barnaby Rudge » by Charles Dickens
  • For this phase, Romanes has coined the term physiological isolation.
  • Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
  • "Masterly inactivity" was as unlucky a phrase as ever was coined.
  • Extract from : « Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General » by Charles Lever
  • Pope, we believe, coined the contemptuous phrase, “I care not a pin.”
  • Extract from : « Pipefuls » by Christopher Morley
  • One British firm there, figuratively speaking, “coined” money.
  • Extract from : « The Philippine Islands » by John Foreman
  • The only satrapies in which money was coined, before Alexander, are the following.
  • Extract from : « The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 » by Various
  • He coined sixpences for Ireland worth only fourpence in England.
  • Extract from : « The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 » by Various
  • The phrase "Solvitur ambulando" must surely have been coined for him.
  • Extract from : « Appearances » by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
  • The French had coined a name for the distemper and called it folie d'Afrique.
  • Extract from : « The Explorer » by W. Somerset Maugham
  • Henry James may be said to have never "coined his soul" or always to have coined it.
  • Extract from : « Suspended Judgments » by John Cowper Powys

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