coin
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coin/kɔɪn/
▶noun
- 1 a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money.
■ money in the form of coins.
- 2 (coins) one of the suits in some tarot packs, corresponding to pentacles in others.
- 1 make (coins) by stamping metal.
■ Brit. informal earn (large amounts of money) quickly and easily: the company was coining it in.
- 2 invent (a new word or phrase).
– phrases
pay someone back in their own coin retaliate by similar behaviour.
to coin a phrase said when introducing a new expression or a variation on a familiar one.
pay someone back in their own coin retaliate by similar behaviour.
to coin a phrase said when introducing a new expression or a variation on a familiar one.
– derivatives
coiner noun.
coiner noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. coin ‘wedge, corner, die’, coigner ‘to mint’, from L. cuneus ‘wedge’.
'coin' also found in these Oxford entries:
agora
- amusement arcade
- angel
- as
- aureus
- bawbee
- bezant
- bracteate
- cash
- coign
- coin-op
- counter
- crown
- dandiprat
- demonetize
- denarius
- denier
- denomination
- dime
- dinero
- diphthong
- dollar
- dollarbird
- dong
- double eagle
- double napoleon
- doubloon
- drachma
- dram
- ducat
- eagle
- epigraph
- exergue
- eyrir
- face value
- farthing
- fils
- flan
- florin
- follis
- fruit machine
- gazette
- groat
- groschen
- guilder
- guinea
- half-crown
- halfpenny
- half-sovereign
