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Synonyms for coinage

coins collectively

a newly invented word or phrase

the act of inventing a word or phrase

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Sanjib Kumar Singh, archaeologist and museologist, National Museum, remarked, "It traces the journey of Indian coinage from its shell avatars to the modern-day plastic version of credit cards.
Deverbal factitive derivation ([d.sub.2]') could be lexicalizations from action nouns or 'non-epidigmatic' coinages that do not correlate with the same-word action noun reading.
Coinages This soldier has lived the value of discipline and honour, and yet he often lets go of these virtues.
Authors are chosen for the OED reading program based on their presentation of cross-varieties of English and interesting vocabulary, particularly new coinages. Based on the illustrative quotations attributed to Mailer in the Oxford English Dictionary, 196 matches exist.
In Authorisms, Paul Dickson traces writerly coinages (a coinage of the Elizabethan scribe George Puttenham) of words and expressions ranging from assassination (Shakespeare's Macbeth) to zombification (the poet Andrei Codrescu).
In fact, the coinages of Muslim Egypt (and of the Syrian areas controlled by dynasties based in Egypt) are the subject of one of the deepest historiographies in Islamic numismatics.
They discuss such topics as understanding the earliest coinages, the heroic image and the portrait coinages of Lykian dynasts, dating on coins as a Phoenician invention, the iconography of succession under the late Seleucids, and the emergence of the Greco-Baktrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms.
Coinages, our focus in this paper, have been situated variously by researchers within the sociolinguistics of Nigerian English (cf.
It''s also his most joyful banquet of language, groaning with rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages and parody.
For one, whereas Grant's listing encompasses everything from dictionary-attested terms to his personal coinages, mine restricts itself to more or less novel coinages, eschewing any words known by me to be entries in any print dictionary.
They've added their own analysis of some of Tolkien's later coinages, adaptations, and borrowings, ranging from ent and attercop to confusticate and eleventy-one.
The suffix was highly productive in the period not only in new coinages of native origin but also in Scandinavian and French hybrids.
Specific comparisons concretely confirm that Della Porta inhabited two linguistically separate worlds, one theoretical and philosophical, compact of Latin and erudite coinages, the other a milieu of laboratory and crafts generating idiomatic terms in different vernaculars.
Orwell's warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book's title and many of its coinages, such as newspeak, became bywords for modern political abuses.