coin

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

coin [coin coins coined coining] noun, verb BrE [kɔɪn] NAmE [kɔɪn]
noun
1. countable a small flat piece of metal used as money
•a euro coin
2. uncountable money made of metal
•notes and coin
see the other side of the coin at ↑side _n., two sides of the same coin at ↑two

Word Origin:
Middle 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.

Example Bank:
•The first English gold coin was struck in 1255.
•The last silver coins were minted in 1964.
•They flipped/tossed a coin to see who should go first.
•Very few old 5p coins are still in circulation.
•What is the probability of the coin landing heads?
•coins jingling in his pockets
Idioms: ↑coin a phrase ▪ ↑coining it ▪ ↑coining money
 
verb
1. ~ sth to invent a new word or phrase that other people then begin to use
• The term ‘cardboard city’ was coined to describe communities of homeless people living in cardboard boxes.
2. ~ sth to make coins out of metal
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
Middle 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.

Example Bank:
•He was the first to coin the motto ‘Make Love, Not War’.

 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  mint, strike