ˈkȯinij, -ēj noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French coignaige, from coin, coing + -age
1.
a. : the act or process of coining (as money) : the manufacture of coins
b. : the official stamping of tin blocks of standard weight
c. : the fabricating or inventing especially of new words
a word of recent coinage
2. : something that has been coined: as
a. : coins
b. : a quantity of coins produced at one time from a particular metal or by a particular mint : a series of coins minted under a particular ruler, government, or dynasty or in a particular country or city
the Jubilee coinage of 1887
c. : something that is made up or invented
this is the very coinage of your brain — Shakespeare
specifically : a coined word
chortle is a coinage of Lewis Carroll's
d. : something that passes current (as in the language of a group) or is of recognized worth
the term has become common coinage