coined

verbcreate, invent

Synonyms for coined

verb create, invent

Antonyms for coined

Word Origin & History

c.1300, "a wedge," from Old French coing (12c.) "a wedge; stamp; piece of money; corner, angle," from Latin cuneus "a wedge." The die for stamping metal was wedge-shaped, and the English word came to mean "thing stamped, a piece of money" by late 14c. (a sense that already had developed in French). Cf. quoin, which split off from this word 16c. Modern French coin is "corner, angle, nook." Coins were first struck in western Asia Minor in 7c. B.C.E.; Greek tradition and Herodotus credit the Lydians with being first to make and use coins of silver and gold.

Example Sentences for coined

Golden cups, spoons, candlesticks, coined guineas—all the riches were revealed.

For this phase, Romanes has coined the term physiological isolation.

"Masterly inactivity" was as unlucky a phrase as ever was coined.

Pope, we believe, coined the contemptuous phrase, “I care not a pin.”

One British firm there, figuratively speaking, “coined” money.

The only satrapies in which money was coined, before Alexander, are the following.

He coined sixpences for Ireland worth only fourpence in England.

The phrase "Solvitur ambulando" must surely have been coined for him.

The French had coined a name for the distemper and called it folie d'Afrique.

Henry James may be said to have never "coined his soul" or always to have coined it.