numismatic
/nˌumɪsmˈætɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.50 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to currency, especially to coins.
adj
Of or pertaining to numismatics.
Example Sentences
- "After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe."
- "The most prevalent use of the acronym for the phrase is not in texts — which allowed for expansive writing — but upon numismatic evidence (i.e. coinage) where space was limited and thus often had familiar abbreviations."
- "Numismatic associations had argued before a State Department advisory committee that import restrictions on ancient coins could not fairly be enforced."
Etymology
Borrowed from French numismatique.