Definitions for coinage

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coinage coin·age

Spelling: [koi-nij]

IPA: /ˈkɔɪ nɪdʒ/

Coinage is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in coinage (acegino).

Definitions for coinage

noun

1. the act, process, or right of making coins.
2. the categories, types, or quantity of coins issued by a nation.
3. coins collectively; currency.
4. the act or process of inventing words; neologizing.
5. an invented or newly created word or phrase:
6. anything made, invented, or fabricated.

Origin of coinage

First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Middle French word coignaige. See coin, -age

Examples for coinage

Now a mint was set up in Eden Vale, and the coinage underwent a reform.

But I feel that were I to accept the award, it would ultimately debase the coinage of the medal.

There's many a coinage costlier than ever the mint fashioned; he may requite me thus.

The money, the coinage, perhaps, is the great reminder after all.

I found that almost any coinage was useful for purchasing in the market-places.

From the conquest up to the year 1857 there was no Philippine coinage.

Remember his coinage “Obamneycare,” which he used in debates starting last June?

Early on, I took to calling this doctrine belief in the “confidence fairy,” a coinage that seems to have stuck.

It was, indeed, a realm where this coinage did not circulate.

Then he has mines of silver and copper, and the King has given him the care of the coinage.