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Definitions for Coins

[1] a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
[2] a number of such pieces.
[3] Informal . money; cash: He's got plenty of coin in the bank.
[4] Architecture . quoin(defs 1, 2) .
[5] Archaic . a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
[6] operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry.
[7] to make (coinage) by stamping metal: The mint is coining pennies.
[8] to convert (metal) into coinage: The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
[9] to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression.
[10] Metalworking . to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss(def 3) .
[11] British Informal . to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.
[12] coin money , Informal . to make or gain money rapidly: Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
[13] pay someone back in his /her own coin , to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, especially inamicably; retaliate: If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin.
[14] the other side of the coin , the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.
[15] counterinsurgency.
[16] a metal disc or piece used as money
[17] metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc Related adjective: nummary
[18] architect a variant spelling of quoin
[19] pay a person back in his own coin to treat a person in the way that he has treated others
[20] the other side of the coin the opposite view of a matter
[21] (tr) to make or stamp (coins)
[22] (tr) to make into a coin
[23] (tr) to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
[24] (tr) informal to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in )
[25] to coin a phrase said ironically after one uses a cliché

Words related to Coins

coinpiece, money, cash, currency, dough, jack, scratch, gold, chips, silver, change, bread, copper, specie, doubloon, mintage, coinage, manufacture, compose, formulate

Words nearby Coins

coincoigne, coil, coil spring, coimbatore, coimbra, coin, coin box, coin changer, coin lesion of lungs, coin lock, coin machine

Origin of Coins

COINco(unter) in(surgency)

Other words from Coins

coin·a·ble , adjective
coin·er , noun
mis·coin , verb
re·coin , verb (used with object)
un·coined , adjective
well-coined , adjective

Word origin for Coins

C14: from Old French: stamping die, from Latin cuneus wedge

Synonyms for Coins

bread, cash, change, chips, coinage, copper, currency, doubloon, dough, gold, jack, mintage, money, piece, scratch, silver, specie, chicken feed, legal tender, meter money, small change