coin
verb/kɔɪn/
/kɔɪn/
Verb Forms
Idioms | present simple I / you / we / they coin | /kɔɪn/ /kɔɪn/ |
| he / she / it coins | /kɔɪnz/ /kɔɪnz/ |
| past simple coined | /kɔɪnd/ /kɔɪnd/ |
| past participle coined | /kɔɪnd/ /kɔɪnd/ |
| -ing form coining | /ˈkɔɪnɪŋ/ /ˈkɔɪnɪŋ/ |
- coin something to invent a new word or phrase that other people then begin to use
- He was the first to coin the motto ‘Make Love, Not War’.
- The term 'doublethink' was coined by George Orwell to mean the act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs.
- coin something to make coins out of metal
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French coin ‘wedge, corner, die’, coigner ‘to mint’, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’. The original sense was ‘cornerstone’, later ‘angle or wedge’ (senses now spelled quoin); in late Middle English the term denoted a die for stamping money, or a piece of money produced by such a die.
Idioms
See coin in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee coin in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishbe coining it (in) | be coining money
- (British English, informal) to earn a lot of money quickly or easily synonym rake in
to coin a phrase
- used to introduce a well-known expression that you have changed slightly in order to be funny
- Tasting is believing, to coin a phrase! (= the usual phrase is ‘seeing is believing’).
- used to show that you are aware that you are using an expression that is not new
- Oh well, no news is good news, to coin a phrase.
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