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Definition of 'COIN'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) coin
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.

2.  coin
a number of such pieces.

3.  coin
Informal. money; cash.

4. (adj.) coin
operated by or containing machines operated by the insertion of a coin or coins.

5. (v.t.) coin
to make (coins) by stamping metal.

6.  coin
to convert (metal) into money.

7.  coin
to invent; fabricate:
to coin an expression.

Definition of 'COIN'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) coin
a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money

2. (verb) coin
make up
"coin phrases or words"

3. (verb) mint, coin, strike
form by stamping, punching, or printing
"strike coins"; "strike a medal"

Definition of 'COIN'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) coin
a circular piece of metal money
to collect coins from around the world

2. coin
flip/toss a coin
to throw a coin to decide between two things
Don't argue about it - just flip a coin.

3. (verb) coin
(of word or phrase ) to be the first ever to use it
an expression coined in the 1920s

Definition of 'COIN'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) COIN
a quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin

2. (noun) COIN
a piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense

3. (noun) COIN
that which serves for payment or recompense

4. (verb) COIN
to make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal

5. (verb) COIN
to make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word

6. (verb) COIN
to acquire rapidly, as money; to make

7. (verb) COIN
to manufacture counterfeit money

Translation of 'COIN'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of metal used as money a handful of coins.
Afrikaans: muntstuk	Arabic: قِطْعَةُ نَقْد مَعْدَني	Bulgarian: монета
Brazilian: moeda	Czech: mince	German: die Münze
Danish: mønt	Greek: κέρμα	Spanish: moneda
Estonian: münt	Farsi: سکه	Finnish: kolikko
French: pièce	Hebrew: מַטבֵע	Hindi: सिक्का
Croatian: komad kovanog novca, novč	Hungarian: érme	Indonesian: uang logam
Icelandic: mynt	Italian: moneta	Japanese: 硬貨
Korean: 경화	Lithuanian: moneta	Latvian: monēta
Malay: duit syiling	Dutch: muntstuk	Norwegian: mynt
Polish: moneta	Persian: سکه	Pashto: سکه
Portuguese: moeda	Romanian: monedă	Russian: монета
Slovak: minca	Slovenian: kovanec	Serbian: novčić
Swedish: mynt	Thai: เหรียญกษาปณ์	Turkish: madeni para
Taiwanese: 硬幣	Ukrainian: монета	Urdu: سکہ
Vietnamese: đồng xu	Chinese: 硬币
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