Definitions for coin
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. coinverb

   a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

2. coinverb

   make up

   "coin phrases or words"

3. mint, coin, strikeverb

   form by stamping, punching, or printing

   "strike coins"; "strike a medal"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. coinnoun

   A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

2. coinnoun

   A token used in a special establishment like a casino (also called a chip).

3. coinnoun

   One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

4. coinverb

   to create coins.

5. coinverb

   to make up or invent, and establish

   Over the last century the advance in science has led to many new words being coined.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Coinnoun

   A corner; any thing standing out angularly; a square brick cut diagonally; called often quoin, or quine.

   Etymology: coigne, French.

   No jutting frieze,
   Buttrice, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird
   Hath made his pendant bed. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   See you yond’ coin o’ th’ capitol, yond’ corner stone? William Shakespeare.

2. COINnoun

   Etymology: coigne, French.

   1. Money stamped with a legal impression.

   He gave Dametas a good sum of gold in ready coin, which Menalcas had bequeathed. Philip Sidney, b. i.

   You have made
   Your holy hat be stamp’d on the king’s coin. William Shakespeare, H. VIII.

   I cannot tell how the poets will succeed in the explication of coins, to which they are generally very great strangers. Addis.

   She now contracts her vast design,
   And all her triumphs shrink into a coin. Alexander Pope.

   2. Payment of any kind.

   The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood, is repaid in a nobler coin. Henry Hammond, Fundamentals.

3. To Coinverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To mint or stamp metals for money.

   They cannot touch me for coining: I am the king himself. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   They never put in practice a thing so necessary as coined money is. Henry Peacham, of Antiquities.

   Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter-day, but must gather it by degrees. John Locke.

   Can we be sure that this medal was really coined by an artificer, or is but a product of the soil from whence it was taken. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

   2. To make or forge any thing, in an ill sense.

   My lungs
   Coin words ’till their decay, against those measles,
   Which we disdain should tetter us. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   Never coin a formal lye on’t,
   To make the knight o’ercome the giant. Hudibras, p. i.

   Those motives induced Virgil to coin his fable. Dryden.

   Some tale, some new pretence, he daily coin’d,
   To sooth his sister, and delude her mind. John Dryden, Virg. Æn.

   A term is coined to make the conveyance easy. Francis Atterbury.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Coinnoun

   a quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin

2. Coinnoun

   a piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense

3. Coinnoun

   that which serves for payment or recompense

4. Coinverb

   to make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal

5. Coinverb

   to make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word

6. Coinverb

   to acquire rapidly, as money; to make

7. Coinverb

   to manufacture counterfeit money

8. Etymology: [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin, Cuneiform.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Coin

   A coin is a piece of hard material that is standardized in weight, is produced in large quantities in order to facilitate trade, and is used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender. Coins are usually alloy metal or a metallic material and sometimes made of synthetic materials, usually in the shape of a disc, and most often issued by a government. Coins are used as a form of money in transactions of various kinds, from the everyday circulation coins to the storage of large numbers of bullion coins. Presently, coins and banknotes make up currency, the cash forms of all modern money systems. Coins made for paying bills and general monetized use are usually used for lower-valued units, and banknotes for the higher values; also, in many money systems, the highest value coin made for circulation is worth less than the lowest-value note. In the last hundred years, the face value of circulation coins has usually been higher than the gross value of the metal used in making them; exceptions occurring when inflation causes the metal value to surpass the face value, causing the minting authority to change the composition and the old coins to begin to disappear from circulation However, this has generally not been the case throughout the rest of history for circulation coins made of precious metals.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Coin

   koin, n. (Shak.) a corner-stone: a piece of metal legally stamped and current as money.—v.t. to convert a piece of metal into money: to stamp; to make, invent, fabricate: (fig.) to make into.—ns. Coin′age, the act of coining money: the currency: the pieces of metal coined: the invention, or fabrication, of something new: what is invented; Coin′er, one who coins money: a maker of counterfeit coins: an inventor; Coin′ing, minting: invention.—Coin money, to make money rapidly.—Pay a man in his own coin, to give tit for tat: to give as good as one got. [Fr. coin, a wedge, also the die to stamp money—L. cuneus, a wedge.]

Military Dictionary and GazetteerRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. coin

   (Fr. coin d’artilleur). In gunnery, a kind of wedge to lay under the breech of a gun, in order to raise or depress the metal. Written also quoin.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. coin

   A piece of metal created as a specific form of official currency by a form of unity government mint.

   The coins are created in the mint which is a unity government business.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on April 4, 2020  

2. ---

   coinnoun

   Commanding element of a company or country carried over to take care of the complement of an angle expressing motion with the result that something ends up within or surrounded by something else. 1.) a flat, typically round piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money. Money in the form of coins. Making by stamping metal. Invent or devise a new word or phrase.

   My favorite coin is the Mansa Musa coin, which is so hard to purchase or even find in that matter.

   Etymology: Metallic

   
   

   Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on April 11, 2024  

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Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. COIN

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Coin is ranked #34618 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Coin surname appeared 653 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Coin.
   
   88.2% or 576 total occurrences were White.
   5.6% or 37 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   2.7% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.9% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'coin' in Nouns Frequency: #1525

Anagrams for coin »

1. cion

2. icon

3. Nico

How to pronounce coin?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of coin in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of coin in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of coin in a Sentence

1. Ahmed Abdulrahman:

   Liberation and occupation are two sides of the same coin.

2. Ted Cruz:

   Donald Trump is never going to fight the system, Donald Trump is the system, donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are two sides of the same coin. Hillary Clinton has made Hillary Clinton millions from inside and Donald Trump has made Donald Trump billions buying people like Hillary Clinton. Both are part of the culture of foreign policy for personal gain. Donald Trump sought to demonstrate Donald Trump foreign policy chops as Donald Trump tries to present a more presidential image – while increasingly turning Donald Trump attention on the campaign trail to a general election battle Donald Trump presumes will involve Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. The billionaire businessman declared himself the.

3. Beau Biden:

   With your permission I'd like to be able to give you a coin. It has a Beau Biden seal on the front, but what's different with this coin, usually -- I know my son would want me to give this to you because on the back of it I have the state of Delaware and the 261st unit my son served on.

4. David Guas:

   One fanciful tale traces it to Western European, pre-Christian societies in which whoever found a coin or bean in a special cake was crowned King for the year, whether the story was true or what you believe, Christians have long served King Cakes containing coins or gilded beans for the Feast of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night, a celebration of the visit of the three wise men — the Magi or Kings — to the infant Jesus 12 days after his birth.

5. Dominik Schiener:

   The smart wallet technology ... can be easily adapted into all new vehicles, iOTA wants to enable interoperability with all these different players. So there is no Jaguar coin, no BMW coin, but one universal token for this machine economy.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=coin
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Coin
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=coin
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coin
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=coin
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=coin
7. ^ Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59563/pg59563-images.html
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html