'Coinage' definitions:
Definition of 'coinage'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Coinage'
From: GCIDE
- Coinage \Coin"age\, n. [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]
- 1. The act or process of converting metal into money. [1913 Webster]
- The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The cost or expense of coining money. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. "Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- This is the very coinage of your brain. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'coinage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- and pence,
- artifact,
- authorship,
- beginning,
- brainchild,
- breakthrough,
- cash,
- child,
- circulating medium,
- coined liberty,
- coining,
- cold cash,
- composition,
- conception,
- concoction,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- counterfeiting,
- creation,
- creative effort,
- creature,
- crowning achievement,
- currency,
- devising,
- discovery,
- distillation,
- dollars,
- effect,
- emergency money,
- end product,
- essence,
- extract,
- fabrication,
- filthy lucre,
- forgery,
- fractional currency,
- fruit,
- generation,
- ghost word,
- gold,
- handiwork,
- hard cash,
- hard currency,
- hatching,
- improvisation,
- innovation,
- introduction,
- invention,
- issue,
- leap,
- legal tender,
- lucre,
- making do,
- mammon,
- managed currency,
- manufacture,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- medium of exchange,
- mintage,
- money,
- necessity money,
- neologism,
- neology,
- neoterism,
- new mintage,
- new phase,
- new sense,
- new word,
- newfangled expression,
- nonce word,
- novelty,
- offspring,
- opera,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- pelf,
- postage currency,
- postal currency,
- pounds,
- product,
- production,
- result,
- scrip,
- shillings,
- silver,
- soft currency,
- specie,
- stamping,
- sterling,
- striking,
- the almighty dollar,
- the wherewith,
- the wherewithal,
- work