Definition

1. Noun:
   • A skilled worker who coins or stamps money: A person who manufactures official currency by stamping metal with designs.
   • A maker of counterfeit coins: A person who illegally produces fake money intended to deceive.
   • Someone who invents new words or expressions: A person who is the origin or source of a new term or phrase in a language.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • The royal mint employed a master coiner to produce the new gold sovereigns.
  • The police arrested a coiner who had been circulating fake silver dollars.
  • William Shakespeare is perhaps the most famous coiner of words in the English language.

Advanced Usage

• "A coiner of phrases": An originator of memorable or influential expressions.
  • As a great speechwriter, she was a coiner of phrases that entered the public consciousness.

Variants and Related Words

• Coin (verb): To invent a new word or phrase.
  • The author coined the term "cyberspace".
• Coinage (noun): 1. The process of making coins. 2. A newly invented word or phrase.
  • The coinage of new terms often reflects technological change.

Synonyms

• Mint worker (for a legal money maker).
• Counterfeiter, forger (for an illegal money maker).
• Neologist, originator (for an inventor of words).

Related Phrases

• To coin a word/phrase: To be the first to use and establish a new word or expression.
  • It is often difficult to determine exactly who coined a particular word.

Noun

1. a skilled worker who coins or stamps money
2. someone who is a source of new words or new expressions
3. a maker of counterfeit coins