COINAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does coinage mean? 

• COINAGE (noun)
  The noun COINAGE has 3 senses:

1. coins collectively

2. a newly invented word or phrase

3. the act of inventing a word or phrase

  Familiarity information: COINAGE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COINAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Coins collectively

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

coinage; metal money; mintage; specie

Hypernyms ("coinage" is a kind of...):

currency (the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coinage"):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A newly invented word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

coinage; neologism; neology

Hypernyms ("coinage" is a kind of...):

word (a unit of language that native speakers can identify)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coinage"):

blend; portmanteau; portmanteau word (a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings)

Derivation:

coin (make up)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of inventing a word or phrase

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

coinage; neologism; neology

Hypernyms ("coinage" is a kind of...):

invention (the act of inventing)

Derivation:

coin (make up)

 Context examples 

“Why don’t you change the basis of your coinage, then?” she queried teasingly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The researchers examined contemporary written sources, inscriptions, coinage, papyrus documents, pollen samples, plague genomes and mortuary archaeology.

(Justinianic plague not a landmark pandemic?, National Science Foundation)

It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

My pocketbook is stuffed with the old coinage, and it’s a stubborn thing.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)