COIN

coin

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

mint, coin, strike

(verb) form by stamping, punching, or printing; “strike coins”; “strike a medal”

coin

(verb) make up; “coin phrases or words”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Proper noun

Coin

A city in Iowa.

An unincorporated community in Kentucky.

Anagrams

• ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon

Etymology

Noun

coin (countable and uncountable, plural coins)

(money) A piece of currency, usually metallic and in the shape of a disc, but sometimes polygonal, or with a hole in the middle.

A token used in a special establishment like a casino.

Synonym: chip

(figurative) That which serves for payment or recompense.

(uncountable, slang, US, African-American Vernacular) Money in general, not limited to coins.

Synonyms: money, Thesaurus:money

(card games) One of the suits of minor arcana in tarot, or a card of that suit.

A corner or external angle.

Synonyms: wedge, quoin

A small circular slice of food.

(informal) A cryptocurrency.

Verb

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

To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal.

Synonyms: mint, manufacture

(by extension) To make or fabricate.

Synonyms: invent, originate

To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.

Anagrams

• ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon

Noun

COIN (uncountable)

(US, military) Abbreviation of counterinsurgency.

Anagrams

• ICON, Nico, cion, coni, icon

Source: Wiktionary

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Coin (koin), n. Etym: [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin, Cuneiform.]

1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wegde. See Coigne, and Quoin.

2. A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

3. That which serves for payment or recompense. The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. Hammond. Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance.

– To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [Colloq.]

Coin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coined (koind); p. pr. & vb. n. Coining.]

1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal.

2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. Dryden.

3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. Locke.

Coin, v. i.

Definition: To manufacture counterfeit money. They cannot touch me for coining. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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