Coin the word meaning

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

An Ancient Greek coin, circa 315–308 BC, made of silver
An English coin, 1703, made of gold

From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping), from Latin cuneus (wedge). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (cornerstone). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet, which was derived from Latin monēta.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kɔɪn/
  • (Appalachians, obsolete) IPA(key): /kwaɪn/[1]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɪn
  • Homophones: coign, quoin

Noun[edit]

coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)

  1. (money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.
  2. A token used in a special establishment like a casino.
    Synonym: chip
  3. (figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.
    • The loss of every present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.
  4. (uncountable, slang, UK, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.
    Synonyms: money; see also Thesaurus:money

    She spent some serious coin on that car!

    • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, [], →OCLC, part I, page 199:

      It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade.

    • 2014, Nicki Minaj, «Anaconda», The Pinkprint:
      Boy toy named Troy, used to live in Detroit, big dope dealer money he was getting some coin.
  5. (card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.
  6. A corner or external angle.
    Synonyms: wedge, quoin
  7. A small circular slice of food.
    • 2015, Fodor’s The Carolinas & Georgia
      For munchies try deep-fried jalapeño coins, jumbo Buffalo wings, and hush puppies with a sweet edge.
    • 2020, Evan Bloom, Rachel Levin, Eat Something (page 76)
      Spread out four bread and butter pickle coins on top, and sprinkle with onion.
  8. (informal, cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency; a cryptocoin.

    What’s the best coin to buy right now?

Derived terms[edit]

  • bright as a new coin
  • challenge coin
  • coin belt
  • coin cell
  • coin die
  • coin dispenser
  • coin ladder
  • coin laundry
  • coin of the realm
  • coin purse
  • coin slot (coin-slot)
  • coin toss (coin flip, coinflip)
  • coin walk
  • coin weight
  • coin-operated
  • coin-tosser
  • coinage
  • coinbox (coin box)
  • cryptocoin
  • euro coin
  • gold coin
  • initial coin offering
  • Maundy coin (Maunday coin)
  • memecoin (meme coin)
  • obsidional coin
  • on the toss of a coin
  • other side of the coin
  • pay back in someone’s own coin
  • sandwich coin
  • shitcoin (shit coin)
  • toss a coin
  • two sides of the same coin

Descendants[edit]

  • Japanese: コイン (koin)

Translations[edit]

(currency) a piece of currency

  • Afrikaans: munt (af), muntstuk
  • Albanian: monedhë (sq) f
  • Amharic: ሣንቲም (śantim), ሳንቲም (santim)
  • Arabic: قِرْش (ar) m (qirš), عُمْلَة‎ f (ʕumla)
    Egyptian Arabic: عملة‎ f (ʕumla)
    Hijazi Arabic: قِرْش‎ m (girš), عُمْلَة‎ f (ʿumla)
  • Aragonese: moneda f
  • Armenian: մետաղադրամ (hy) (metaładram)
  • Asturian: moneda f
  • Azerbaijani: sikkə
  • Bashkir: тәңкә (täŋkä), тимер аҡса (aqsa)
  • Basque: txanpon
  • Belarusian: мане́та f (manjéta), манэ́та f (manéta)
  • Bengali: মুদ্রা (mudra)
  • Breton: moneiz (br) f
  • Bulgarian: моне́та (bg) f (monéta)
  • Burmese: ဒင်္ဂါး (my) (dangga:)
  • Buryat: зоод (zood), хашарһан (xašarhan)
  • Catalan: moneda (ca) f
  • Chechen: ахча (axča)
  • Chichewa: ndalamayo
  • Chinese:
    Cantonese: (ngan4-2), 銀仔银仔 (ngan4-2 zai2), 硬幣硬币 (ngaang6 bai6)
    Mandarin: 硬幣硬币 (zh) (yìngbì), 銅錢铜钱 (zh) (tóngqián)
    Min Nan: 銀角仔银角仔 (zh-min-nan) (gîn-kak-á/gûn-kak-á)
    Wu: 角子 (koq tsr), 鉛角子铅角子 (khe koq tsr)
  • Czech: mince (cs) f
  • Dalmatian: monaita f
  • Danish: mønt (da) c
  • Dutch: munt (nl) m, muntstuk (nl) n, geldstuk (nl) n
  • Esperanto: monero (eo)
  • Estonian: münt (et), metallraha
  • Faroese: myntur m, mynt f
  • Finnish: kolikko (fi)
  • French: pièce de monnaie (fr) f, jeton (fr) m (Africa)
  • Friulian: monede f
  • Galician: moeda (gl) f
  • Georgian: მონეტა (moneṭa)
  • German: Münze (de) f, Geldstück (de) n
  • Gondi: బిల్ల (billa)
  • Greek: κέρμα (el) n (kérma), νόμισμα (el) n (nómisma)
    Ancient: κέρμα n (kérma), νόμισμα n (nómisma)
  • Gujarati: સિક્કો f (sikko)
  • Hebrew: מַטְבֵּעַ (he) m (matbéa’)
  • Hindi: सिक्का (hi) f (sikkā)
  • Hungarian: érme (hu), fémpénz (hu), pénzérme (hu), pénzdarab (hu)
  • Icelandic: mynt f
  • Ido: moneto (io)
  • Indonesian: keping (id), kepingan, koin (id)
  • Interlingua: moneta, numisma
  • Irish: bonn m
  • Italian: moneta (it) f
  • Japanese: 硬貨 (ja) (こうか, kōka),  (ja) (たま), コイン (ja) (koin)
  • Kazakh: монета (moneta), ақша (kk) (aqşa), мәнет (mänet)
  • Khmer: កាក់ (km) (kak)
  • Korean: 동전(銅錢) (ko) (dongjeon)
  • Kyrgyz: монета (moneta)
  • Lao: ເງິນຕາ (ngœn tā), ບ້ານ (bān), ຫຣຽນ (rīan), ຫລຽນ (līan)
  • Latgalian: moneta f
  • Latin: nummus m, moneta f
  • Latvian: monēta f
  • Lithuanian: moneta (lt) f
  • Luxembourgish: Mënz f
  • Macedonian: моне́та f (monéta)
  • Malay: duit syiling, syiling
  • Malayalam: നാണയം (ml) (nāṇayaṃ)
  • Maltese: munita f
  • Maori: kapa, moni (mi), moni uka, uka
  • Marathi: नाणे f (nāṇe), नाणेशास्त्र f (nāṇeśāstra)
  • Middle English: coyn
  • Mon: ခလာန် (həlan)
  • Mongolian:
    Cyrillic: зоос (mn) (zoos)
    Mongolian: ᠵᠣᠭᠤᠰ (ǰoɣus)
  • Navajo: béeso biyázhí
  • Neapolitan: renaro m, sordo m
  • Nepali: सिक्का (sikkā)
  • Norman: pièche f
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: mynt (no) m
  • Occitan: moneda (oc) f
  • Old Church Slavonic:
    Cyrillic: цѧта f (cęta)
  • Old English: mynet n, sċeatt m
  • Oriya: please add this translation if you can
  • Oromo: saantima
  • Pashto: سکه (ps) f (seká), دوړی (ps) f (dawṛǝ́y)
  • Persian: سکه (fa) (sekke)
  • Plautdietsch: Jeltstekj n
  • Polish: moneta (pl), bilon (pl)
  • Portuguese: moeda (pt) f, prata (pt) f
  • Punjabi: ਸਿੱਕਾ f (sikkā)
  • Romanian: monedă (ro) f
  • Romansch: munaida f, muneda f, muneida f
  • Russian: моне́та (ru) f (monéta)
  • Sanskrit: नाणक (sa) n (nāṇaka)
  • Sardinian: moneda, moneta, muneda
  • Scottish Gaelic: bonn m, cùinn f
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: но̀вчић m, кова̀ница f, монѐта f
    Roman: nòvčić m, kovànica (sh) f, monèta (sh) f
  • Sicilian: munita (scn) f
  • Sinhalese: කාසියක් (kāsiyak)
  • Slovak: minca f
  • Slovene: kovanec (sl) m
  • Spanish: moneda (es) f
  • Swahili: sarafu (sw)
  • Swedish: mynt (sv) n
  • Tagalog: pera (tl), kuwalta, barya
  • Tajik: сикка (sikka), танга (tanga)
  • Tamil: நாணயம் (ta) (nāṇayam)
  • Telugu: నాణెము (te) (nāṇemu)
  • Thai: เหรียญ (th) (rǐian)
  • Tibetan: སྒོར་མོ (sgor mo), ཊང་ཀ (ṭang ka)
  • Tigrinya: ሳንቲም (santim)
  • Turkish: madenî para (tr), demir para (tr), sikke (tr)
  • Turkmen: teňňe, şaýy
  • Ukrainian: моне́та f (monéta)
  • Urdu: سکہ‎ f (sikkā)
  • Uyghur: قويما پۇل(qoyma pul)
  • Uzbek: tanga (uz), aqcha (uz)
  • Venetian: monéda f, monèa f
  • Vietnamese: đồng tiền (vi)
  • Volapük: könäd (vo), (gold) goldakönäd, (silver) largentakönäd
  • Walloon: manoye (wa) f
  • Welsh: bathyn m, bathon m, bathonau m pl
  • West Frisian: munt (fy)
  • White Hmong: niaj
  • Yakut: манньыат (mannyıat)
  • Yiddish: מטבע‎ f (matbeye)
  • Zhuang: ngaenzgeng
  • Zulu: uhlamvu class 11/10

a token used in a special establishment like a casino

  • Belarusian: жэто́н m (žetón)
  • Bulgarian: жето́н m (žetón)
  • Czech: žeton m
  • Danish: polet c, jeton c
  • Dutch: jeton (nl) m, munt (nl) f
  • Esperanto: ĵetono
  • Estonian: rahamärk, žetoon
  • Finnish: pelimerkki (fi)
  • French: jeton (fr) m
  • Galician: ficha f
  • Georgian: ჟეტონი (žeṭoni)
  • German: Chip (de) m, Jeton (de) m
  • Greek: μάρκα (el) f (márka)
  • Hungarian: zseton (hu)
  • Italian: gettone (it) m
  • Kazakh: жетон (jeton)
  • Kyrgyz: жетон (jeton)
  • Latvian: žetons m
  • Lithuanian: žetonas m
  • Macedonian: жето́н m (žetón)
  • Persian: ژتون(žeton)
  • Polish: żeton (pl) m
  • Portuguese: ficha (pt) f
  • Romanian: jeton (ro) n
  • Russian: жето́н (ru) m (žetón), фи́шка (ru) f (fíška)
  • Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: жѐто̄н m
    Roman: žètōn (sh) m
  • Slovak: žetón m
  • Slovene: žeton m
  • Swedish: pollett (sv) c, jetong (sv) c
  • Tajik: жетон (žeton)
  • Turkish: jeton (tr)
  • Ukrainian: жето́н m (žetón)
  • Uzbek: jeton (uz)

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

Verb[edit]

coin (third-person singular simple present coins, present participle coining, simple past and past participle coined)

  1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.
    Synonyms: mint, manufacture

    to coin silver dollars

    to coin a medal

    • 1898 September 1, Alexander E. Outerbridge Jr., “Curiosities of American Coinage”, in Popular Science Monthly[1], volume 53, D. Appleton & Company, page 601:

      Many persons believe that the so-called «dollar of the daddies,» weighing 412½ grains (nine tenths fine), having a ratio to gold of «16 to 1» in value when first coined, was the original dollar of the Constitution.

  2. (by extension) To make or fabricate (especially a word or phrase).
    Synonyms: invent, originate

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

    • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [] (First Folio), London: [] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 15:

      Not fearing outward force: So ſhall my Lungs / Coine words till their decay, againſt thoſe Meazels

    • 1697, Virgil, “Aeneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. [], London: [] Jacob Tonson, [], →OCLC, page 1:

      Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, / To soothe his sister and delude her mind.

  3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
    • 1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. [], London: [] Awnsham and John Churchill, [], published 1692, →OCLC, page 36:

      […] Tenants cannot coin their Rent juſt at Quarter-day, but muſt gather it up by degrees, and lodge it with them till Pay-day, or borrow it of thoſe who have it lying by them, […]

Derived terms[edit]

  • coin a phrase
  • coin it
  • new-coin (newcoin)

Translations[edit]

to create coins

  • Bulgarian: сека (bg) (seka)
  • Catalan: encunyar (ca)
  • Czech: razit (cs)
  • Dutch: munten (nl), aanmunten (nl), munt slaan
  • Finnish: lyödä rahaa
  • French: frapper une monnaie
  • Galician: acuñar (gl), cuñar (gl)
  • German: prägen (de)
  • Greek: νομισματοκοπώ (nomismatokopó), νομισματοποιώ (el) (nomismatopoió), κερματίζω (el) (kermatízo)
  • Hungarian: pénzt ver (hu)
  • Icelandic: slá mynt
  • Italian: coniare (it), monetare, battere moneta
  • Kurdish:
    Central Kurdish: پارەلێدان(parelêdan)
  • Middle English: coynen, moneyen
  • Polish: bić / wytwarzać monety
  • Portuguese: cunhar (pt)
  • Russian: чека́нить (ru) impf (čekánitʹ), отчека́нить (ru) pf (otčekánitʹ)
  • Scottish Gaelic: buail
  • Spanish: acuñar (es)
  • Swedish: prägla (sv)

to make up or invent, and establish

  • Bulgarian: измислям (bg) (izmisljam), изфабрикувам (bg) (izfabrikuvam)
  • Catalan: encunyar (ca)
  • Czech: razit (cs)
  • Dutch: verzinnen (nl), smeden (nl), opperen (nl), bedenken (nl)
  • Finnish: keksiä (fi), sepittää (fi) (words)
  • French: inventer (fr), forger (fr)
  • Galician: acuñar (gl)
  • Georgian: გამოგონება (gamogoneba)
  • German: prägen (de)
  • Greek: εφευρίσκω (el) (efevrísko), επινοώ (el) (epinoó), κατασκευάζω (el) (kataskevázo)
  • Hungarian: alkot (hu), létrehoz (hu)
  • Icelandic: búa til
  • Italian: coniare (it)
  • Polish: wymyślić (pl), ukuć (wyrażenie, powiedzenie)
  • Portuguese: cunhar (pt)
  • Romanian: crea (ro), inventa (ro), născoci (ro)
  • Russian: приду́мывать (ru) impf (pridúmyvatʹ), приду́мать (ru) pf (pridúmatʹ)
  • Spanish: acuñar (es)
  • Swedish: mynta (sv)
  • Welsh: bathu (cy)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Hall, Joseph Sargent (March 2, 1942), “3. The Consonants”, in The Phonetics of Great Smoky Mountain Speech (American Speech: Reprints and Monographs; 4), New York: King’s Crown Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4, page 93.

Anagrams[edit]

  • ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kwɛ̃/
  • Homophones: coing, coings, coins

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French coin, from Latin cuneus (wedge), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ḱū (sting).

Noun[edit]

coin m (plural coins)

  1. wedge, cornerpiece
  2. corner
    • 2016, Joey Richardière, Une fille venue d’ailleurs, Chiado.

      Lorsque les copains se retrouvaient au café du coin, pour boire une bière, taquiner le flipper ou le baby-foot, il n’était accepté que parce qu’il régalait.

      When the mates met up in the café at the corner, to drink a beer, have a go at the pinball machine or the football table, he was only tolerated because he treated them.

    L’église fait le coin.

    The church is just on the corner.
  3. area, part, place, spot

    « Je suis le seul robot dans ce coin. »

    «I am the only robot around here.»
Derived terms[edit]
  • à tous les coins de rue
  • au coin
  • au coin du feu
  • coin de rue
  • coup de coin
  • coup de pie de coin
  • dans le coin
  • du coin de l’œil
  • du coin (local)
  • en boucher un coin
  • en coin (from the corner, from the side)
  • petit coin (loo, toilet)

Etymology 2[edit]

Imitative.

Interjection[edit]

coin

  1. quack

Further reading[edit]

  • “coin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kɪnʲ/

Noun[edit]

coin

  1. inflection of :
    1. (archaic) dative singular
    2. nominative/vocative/dative plural

Mutation[edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
coin choin gcoin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Middle English[edit]

Noun[edit]

coin

  1. Alternative form of coyn (coin, quoin)

Old Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /konʲ/

Noun[edit]

coin

  1. inflection of :
    1. accusative/dative singular
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative dual
    3. nominative plural

Mutation[edit]

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
coin choin coin
pronounced with /ɡ(ʲ)-/
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *kunes (compare Welsh cŵn, Cornish keun).

Noun[edit]

coin m pl

  1. nominative/dative plural of (dog)
    is fheàrr leam coinI prefer dogs
    ghabh e eagal ro na coinhe got a fright from the dogs

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *kunos (compare Welsh cŵn, Cornish keun).

Noun[edit]

coin m sg

  1. indefinite genitive singular of (dog)
    a’ marbhadh coin mhairbhflogging a dead horse (literally, “killing a dead dog”)

Noun



I have a dollar in coins.



seeking a job that pays plenty of coin

Verb



The coach coined the phrase “refuse to lose.”



William Shakespeare is believed to have coined many words.



The nation plans to coin more money.

Recent Examples on the Web



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noun

a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.

a number of such pieces.

Informal. money; cash: He’s got plenty of coin in the bank.

Archaic. a corner cupboard of the 18th century.

adjective

operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry.

verb (used with object)

to make (coinage) by stamping metal: The mint is coining pennies.

to convert (metal) into coinage: The mint used to coin gold into dollars.

to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression.

Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies.Compare emboss (def. 3).

verb (used without object)

British Informal. to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.

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Idioms about coin

    coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly: Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.

    pay someone back in his / her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, especially inamicably; retaliate: If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin.

    the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.

Origin of coin

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English coyn(e), coygne, from Anglo-French; Middle French coin, cuigne “wedge, corner, die,” from Latin cuneus “wedge”

OTHER WORDS FROM coin

coin·a·ble, adjectivecoin·er, nounmis·coin, verbre·coin, verb (used with object)

Words nearby coin

coign of vantage, coil, coil spring, Coimbatore, Coimbra, coin, coinage, coinage bronze, coin box, coin changer, coincide

Other definitions for coin (2 of 2)

Origin of COIN

co(unter)in(surgency)

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Words related to coin

bread, cash, change, chips, coinage, copper, currency, doubloon, dough, gold, jack, mintage, money, piece, scratch, silver, specie, brainstorm, compose, conceive

How to use coin in a sentence

  • The musician joins Boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer DJ Khaled as celebrities who’ve been sued by the Wall Street regulator for hyping initial coin offerings.

  • However, when the coin is flipped on any other state that is not competitive, the probabilities of all the other states are stable.

  • Soon after, officials at the Energy Department began to coin new terms for American LNG, calling it “freedom gas” and “molecules of freedom” as they sought to market it around the world.

  • For central banks, including the Federal Reserve, a purely digital currency—one not linked to coins or paper bills—would represent a step beyond the existing system of electronic money transfer.

  • About the size of a large coin, the device replaces a small chunk of your skull and sits flush with the surrounding skull matter.

  • Asteroids, at the moment I am writing, is the most popular coin-operated game—video, pinball, or other—in the United States.

  • Some of the things Lawrence had to alter from the book involved President Coin, played by Julianne Moore.

  • Americans want to do something about this coin-operated government.

  • “When you fired your arrow at the force field, you electrified a nation,” President Coin (Julianne Moore) tells her.

  • She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”

  • It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.

  • A bezant was a gold coin, originally struck at Byzantium, whence the name.

  • The soldiers so frequently threw away copper coin given them in change as valueless, that many natives discontinued to offer it.

  • And putting his hand in his pocket, he drew out a golden coin, and slipped it into Donald’s hand.

  • It was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.

British Dictionary definitions for coin


noun

a metal disc or piece used as money

metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etcRelated adjective: nummary

architect a variant spelling of quoin

pay a person back in his own coin to treat a person in the way that he has treated others

the other side of the coin the opposite view of a matter

verb

(tr) to make or stamp (coins)

(tr) to make into a coin

(tr) to fabricate or invent (words, etc)

(tr) informal to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in)

to coin a phrase said ironically after one uses a cliché

Derived forms of coin

coinable, adjectivecoiner, noun

Word Origin for coin

C14: from Old French: stamping die, from Latin cuneus wedge

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Other Idioms and Phrases with coin


In addition to the idiom beginning with coin

  • coin money

also see:

  • other side of the coin
  • pay back (in someone’s own coin)

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WordReference Random House Learner’s Dictionary of American English © 2023

coin /kɔɪn/USA pronunciation  
n. 

  1. a piece of metal stamped and issued by a government as money:[countable]How many coins do you have in your pocket?
  2. a number of such pieces:[uncountable]She paid him in coin.
  3. Informal Terms Informal. money;
    cash:[uncountable]You have any coin, man?

adj. [before a noun]

  1. operated by the insertion of a coin or coins:[sometimes: ~-operated]a coin-operated laundry.

v. [+ object]

  1. to make (coins) by stamping metal:They coined nickels and dimes at the mint.
  2. to invent;
    fabricate:to coin an expression.

Idioms

  1. Idioms pay someone back in his or her own coin, to strike back against someone by using the person’s own methods.

coin•a•ble, adj. 
coin•er, n. [countable]a coiner of new words.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2023

coin 
(koin),USA pronunciation n. 

  1. a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
  2. a number of such pieces.
  3. Informal Termsmoney;
    cash:He’s got plenty of coin in the bank.
  4. Architecturequoin (defs. 1, 2).
  5. Furniture[Archaic.]a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
  6. Idioms pay someone back in his or her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, esp. inamicably;
    retaliate:If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin.
  7. Idioms the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view;
    alternative consideration.

adj.

  1. operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot:a coin laundry.

v.t.

  1. to make (coinage) by stamping metal:The mint is coining pennies.
  2. to convert (metal) into coinage:The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
  3. to make;
    invent;
    fabricate:to coin an expression.
  4. Metallurgyto shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Cf. emboss (def. 3).

v.i.

  1. British Termsto counterfeit, esp. to make counterfeit money.
  2. coin money, [Informal.]to make or gain money rapidly:Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
  • Latin cuneus wedge
  • Anglo-French; Middle French coin, cuigne wedge, corner, die
  • Middle English coyn(e), coygne 1300–50

coina•ble, adj. 
coiner, n. 

COIN 
(koin),USA pronunciation n., adj. 

  1. counterinsurgency.
  • co(unter) in(surgency)

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

coin /kɔɪn/ n

  1. a metal disc or piece used as money
  2. metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc
  3. a variant spelling of quoin
  4. pay a person back in his own cointo treat a person in the way that he has treated others

vb

  1. (transitive) to make or stamp (coins)
  2. (transitive) to make into a coin
  3. (transitive) to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
  4. (transitive) informal to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in)

Etymology: 14th Century: from Old French: stamping die, from Latin cuneus wedge

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  • 1
    coin

    coin [kɔɪn]

    1) моне́та;

    разг.

    де́ньги;

    а) игра́ть в орля́нку;

    б) реша́ть пари́ подбра́сыванием моне́ты

    2)

    тех.

    ште́мпель, чека́н, пуансо́н

    coin slot отве́рстие для опуска́ния моне́т (напр., в телефоне-автомате)

    ;

    1) чека́нить; выбива́ть ( медаль); штампова́ть;

    2) фабрикова́ть, измышля́ть

    3) приду́мывать (новые слова, выражения)

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > coin

  • 2
    COIN

    COIN, continuation incentive pay

    ————————

    COIN, counterintelligence

    English-Russian dictionary of planing, cross-planing and slotting machines > COIN

  • 3
    coin money

    coin money coll. делать деньги

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > coin money

  • 4
    coin slot

    coin slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефоне-автомате)

    Англо-русский словарь Мюллера > coin slot

  • 5
    coin

    Персональный Сократ > coin

  • 6
    coin money

    быстро богатеть, наживаться; ≈ загребать деньги лопатой, купаться в золоте

    In the words of his friends… he was coining money. (M. Braddon, ‘Cloven Foot’, ch. XIV) — По словам друзей… мистер Смолендо загребал деньги лопатой.

    I wouldn’t want anybody who knew me, or anybody who appreciated my work, to see some of the snows I’ve been in. But this was good. With any luck, we could have coined money with it. (J. B. Priestley, ‘The Good Companions’, book II, ch. I) — Мне не хотелось бы, чтобы люди, знающие меня и ценящие мое искусство, увидели некоторые представления, в которых мне приходится участвовать. Но на этот раз спектакль получился хороший. Если повезет, мы на нем заработаем кучу денег.

    Large English-Russian phrasebook > coin money

  • 7
    coin

    [kɔɪn]

    coin = coign coin монета; разг. деньги; false coin фальшивая монета; перен. подделка; small coin разменная монета coin монета coin создавать (новые слова, выражения) coin фабриковать, измышлять coin чеканить; выбивать (медаль); штамповать; to coin money разг. делать деньги coin чеканить монеты coin тех. штемпель, чекан, пуансон coin attr.: coin slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефонеавтомате); to pay a man back in his own coin отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же coin чеканить; выбивать (медаль); штамповать; to coin money разг. делать деньги coin attr.: coin slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефонеавтомате); to pay a man back in his own coin отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же coin монета; разг. деньги; false coin фальшивая монета; перен. подделка; small coin разменная монета coin attr.: coin slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефонеавтомате); to pay a man back in his own coin отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же coin монета; разг. деньги; false coin фальшивая монета; перен. подделка; small coin разменная монета to spin (или to toss up) a coin играть в орлянку to spin (или to toss up) a coin решать пари подбрасыванием монеты spin: coin крутить(ся), вертеть(ся), описывать круги; to spin a top пускать волчок; to spin a coin подбрасывать монету; to send (smb.) spinning отбросить (кого-л.) ударом

    English-Russian short dictionary > coin

  • 8
    coin

    English-russian dctionary of contemporary Economics > coin

  • 9
    coin

    Англо-русский словарь по экономике и финансам > coin

  • 10
    coin

    kɔɪn
    1. сущ.
    1) а) монета, мелкая монета( в финансовой системе государства), разменная монета б) разг. деньги coin slot ≈ отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефоне-автомате) Syn: money
    2) тех. пуансон, чекан, штемпель
    3) архит. внешний угол (здания) Syn: coign ∙ to pay a man back in his own coin ≈ отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же spin a coin toss up a coin
    2. гл.
    1) чеканить;
    штамповать Syn: mint
    2) измышлять, выдумывать, замышлять Syn: contrive, devise, create
    3) создавать неологизмы (новые слова и выражения) ∙ coin it in ≈ зарабатывать много денег
    монета — gold * золотая монета — small * разменная монета — base * фальшивая монета;
    (американизм) разменная монета — false * фальшивая монета;
    подделка — current * ходячая монета;
    распространенное мнение — * collector собиратель монет, нумизмат — to spin a * играть в орлянку;
    решать пари подбрасыванием монеты (разговорное) деньги — he has plenty of * у него много денег( специальное) штемпель, чекан, пу(а) нсон (архитектура) угловой камень > to play smb. back in his own * отплатить той же монетой монетный — * show выставка монет — * slot отверстие для опускания монеты (в телефоне-автомате) монетный (об автомате) — * laundry прачечная-автомат — * lock замок, открывающийся опускаемой монетой ( в общественных туалетах) чеканить (монету) ;
    выбивать (медаль) — to be *ing money делать деньги, обогащаться фабриковать, измышлять — to * a lie придумать ложь создавать новые слова, выражения — to * a word выдумать новое слово
    coin = coign ~ монета;
    разг. деньги;
    false coin фальшивая монета;
    перен. подделка;
    small coin разменная монета ~ монета ~ создавать (новые слова, выражения) ~ фабриковать, измышлять ~ чеканить;
    выбивать (медаль) ;
    штамповать;
    to coin money разг. делать деньги ~ чеканить монеты ~ тех. штемпель, чекан, пуансон
    ~ attr.: ~ slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефонеавтомате) ;
    to pay a man back in his own coin отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же
    ~ чеканить;
    выбивать (медаль) ;
    штамповать;
    to coin money разг. делать деньги
    ~ attr.: ~ slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефонеавтомате) ;
    to pay a man back in his own coin отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же
    ~ монета;
    разг. деньги;
    false coin фальшивая монета;
    перен. подделка;
    small coin разменная монета
    ~ attr.: ~ slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефонеавтомате) ;
    to pay a man back in his own coin отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же
    ~ монета;
    разг. деньги;
    false coin фальшивая монета;
    перен. подделка;
    small coin разменная монета
    to spin (или to toss up) a ~ играть в орлянку to spin (или to toss up) a ~ решать пари подбрасыванием монеты spin: ~ крутить(ся), вертеть(ся), описывать круги;
    to spin a top пускать волчок;
    to spin a coin подбрасывать монету;
    to send (smb.) spinning отбросить( кого-л.) ударом

    Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > coin

  • 11
    coin

    English-russian dctionary of diplomacy > coin

  • 12
    coin

    Англо-русский технический словарь > coin

  • 13
    coin

    1. [kɔın]

    1. 1) монета

    gold [silver, copper] coin — золотая [серебряная, медная] монета

    base coin — а) фальшивая монета; б) разменная монета

    false coin — а) фальшивая монета; б) подделка

    current coin — а) ходячая монета; б) распространённое мнение

    coin collector — собиратель монет, нумизмат

    to spin /to toss (up)/ a coin — а) играть в орлянку; б) решать пари /спор/ подбрасыванием монеты

    2.

    штемпель, чекан, пу(а)нсон

    to play smb. back in his own coin — отплатить кому-л. той же монетой

    2. [kɔın]

    1) монетный

    2) = coin-operated

    coin lock — замок, открывающийся опускаемой монетой ()

    3. [kɔın]

    1. чеканить (), выбивать ()

    to be coining money — делать деньги, обогащаться

    2. фабриковать, измышлять

    3. создавать новые слова, выражения

    to coin a word — выдумать /создать/ новое слово

    НБАРС > coin

  • 14
    coin

    монета
    имя существительное:

    глагол:

    Англо-русский синонимический словарь > coin

  • 15
    coin

    1) штемпель, пуансон, чекан || выдавливать пуансоном, тиснить

    3) чеканить, штамповать

    English-Russian scientific dictionary > coin

  • 16
    coin

    1. n монета

    2. n тк. разг. деньги

    3. n спец. штемпель, чекан, пунсон

    4. n архит. угловой камень

    5. a монетный

    6. v чеканить, выбивать

    7. v фабриковать, измышлять

    8. v создавать новые слова, выражения

    Синонимический ряд:

    2. legal tender (noun) copper coin; currency; gold piece; legal tender; money; silver piece; specie

    4. make up (verb) alliterate; compose a jingle; create a phrase; make up; rhyme

    5. mint (verb) counterfeit; issue; manufacture; mint; produce coins; stamp; strike

    Антонимический ряд:

    quote; recall

    English-Russian base dictionary > coin

  • 17
    coin

    English-Russian combinatory dictionary > coin

  • 18
    coin

    1) монета;

    collocation

    деньги; false coin фальшивая монета; fig. подделка; small coin разменная монета; to spin (или to toss up)

    a coin

    а) играть в орлянку;

    б) решать пари подбрасыванием монеты

    2)

    tech.

    штемпель, чекан, пуансон

    4) (

    attr.

    ) coin slot отверстие для опускания монет (напр., в телефоне-автомате)

    to pay a man back in his own coin отплачивать той же монетой, отплачивать тем же

    1) чеканить; выбивать (медаль); штамповать; to coin money

    collocation

    делать деньги

    2) фабриковать, измышлять

    3) создавать (новые слова, выражения)

    * * *

    2 (v) чеканить монету; чеканить монеты

    * * *

    * * *

    [ kɔɪn]
    монета, монетка, звонкая монета, деньги; штемпель; чекан, пуансон; внешний угол
    чеканить, начеканить, выбивать, штамповать; фабриковать, измышлять; придумывать; создавать новые слова

    * * *

    монета

    состряпать

    сфабриковать

    фабриковать

    чеканить

    * * *

    1. сущ.
    1) а) монета, мелкая монета, разменная монета
    б) разг. деньги
    2) тех. пуансон
    3) архит. внешний угол (здания)
    2. гл.
    1) чеканить
    2) измышлять
    3) создавать неологизмы (новые слова и выражения)

    Новый англо-русский словарь > coin

  • 19
    coin

    Англо-русский юридический словарь > coin

  • 20
    coin

    [kɔɪn]
    1.

    сущ.

    Syn:

    3)

    тех.

    пуансон, чекан, штемпель

    ••

    spin a coin


    — toss up a coin

    2.

    гл.

    1) чеканить; штамповать

    Syn:

    2) измышлять, выдумывать; замышлять

    Syn:

    ••

    Англо-русский современный словарь > coin

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  • Coin Salarial Et Fiscal — dans les principaux pays de l OCDE. Le coin salarial et le coin socialo fiscal (ou coin fiscalo social, ce dernier étant parfois incorrectement dénommé coin fiscal) sont deux mesures voisines utilisées pour calculer le degré de taxation total des …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Coin fiscal — Coin salarial et fiscal Coin salarial et fiscal dans les principaux pays de l OCDE. Le coin salarial et le coin socialo fiscal (ou coin fiscalo social, ce dernier étant parfois incorrectement dénommé coin fiscal) sont deux mesures voisines… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Coin fiscalo-social — Coin salarial et fiscal Coin salarial et fiscal dans les principaux pays de l OCDE. Le coin salarial et le coin socialo fiscal (ou coin fiscalo social, ce dernier étant parfois incorrectement dénommé coin fiscal) sont deux mesures voisines… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Coin salarial — et fiscal Coin salarial et fiscal dans les principaux pays de l OCDE. Le coin salarial et le coin socialo fiscal (ou coin fiscalo social, ce dernier étant parfois incorrectement dénommé coin fiscal) sont deux mesures voisines utilisées pour… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Coin World — Type Weekly Format Magazine Owner Amos Press Editor Beth Deisher Founded 1960 Language English …   Wikipedia

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