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coinage

coinage

1 7.0
Creating a new word or phrase
  • noun
  • /ˈkɔɪnɪdʒ/
translation icon : neologismo
  • One of the, the recent coinages out of the the university is this phrase justice involved person.
  • a new coinage

One of the, the recent coinages out of the the university is this phrase justice involved person.

Examples

  • A new term is entering the coinage of politically correct speech: "responsible speech."

    Blog text (6)
  • But scholars know there are no rules governing the coinage of words.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Indeed, there are other variants of this coinage referred to as Popular Theatre.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Many of the Mancebo's coinages occur nowhere else in Aljamiado literature.

    Academic text (1995)
  • In actuality, "postmodernism" resembles many other terms in literary studies in having arisen as a theological coinage; it came into usage as early as the 1920s in America.

    Academic text (1998)
  • "Typology" itself is, after all, a 19th-century coinage, and the allegory-typology distinction reflects the agenda of modern patristic scholars rather than the mind of patristic authors.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The author's creative coinage of the term "hangry" has become popular in everyday conversations.

  • In linguistic studies, coinage often refers to the creation of new words to describe emerging concepts.

  • The coinage of the phrase "freemium model" has changed how we think about digital products.

Synonyms

neologism
vscoinage
1 7.1

A new word or phrase that people start to use

refers to inventing a single new word or the specific new item
neology
vscoinage
  • Specialized
9.8

To create new words or phrases in a language

refers to inventing a single new word or phrase rather than broad creation

How Established

accepted
1.3
neologism
1 7.1
coinage
1 7.0
nonce word
  • Specialized
9.9

Surface Forms

coinage singular
coinages plural

Morphology

coinage = coin (semi-transparent) = coin + age

The sense 'invention of a word' is a conventional metaphorical extension of 'coin' (minting), so learners who only know the money sense may not reliably infer this meaning.

Etymology

Coinage for a new word comes from the simple image of coin, which meant to 'stamp' metal into a piece of money; by a helpful image, to 'coin' a word is to stamp a new name into the language. So a coinage is a newly invented word or phrase that someone has made and put into use.