coiner
/'kɔinə/
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Definition
- 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
- a skilled worker who coins or stamps money
- someone who is a source of new words or new expressions
- a maker of counterfeit coins