coin
/ˈkoɪ̯n/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.19 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "...the coins were of all countries and sizes - doubloons, and louis d'ors, and guineas, and pieces of eight..."
- "The loss of every present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin."
- "Tho’ truths in manhood darkly join, Deep-seated in our mystic frame, We yield all blessing to the name Of Him that made them current coin; […]"
- "The religious interpretation of socialism and the conception of a new epoch as the fulfilment of the true content of Christianity were, in fact, current coin in the French socialism of the 1830s and 1840s."
- "She spent some serious coin on that car!"
- "It was the biggest thing in the town, and everybody I met was full of it. They were going to run an over-sea empire, and make no end of coin by trade."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin cuneusder. Old French coinbor. Middle English coyn English coin From Middle English coyn, from Old French coigne (“wedge, cornerstone, die for stamping”), from Latin cuneus (“wedge”). Doublet of coign and cuneus. See also quoin (“cornerstone”). Displaced Middle English mynt, from Old English mynet (whence modern English mint), which was derived from Latin monēta.