Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: coined
IPA transcription: [k'ɔɪnd]
Usage examples
  • I had forgotten all about him. It was Tom who coined the name for him because he was made of Canton flannel."
  • In most instances they are entirely of modern origin, coined at the suggestion of missionaries, applied to the white man's God.
  • Just as though it were not the blood of fifty kings and queens that made so red and sweet, aye, sweet as nectar thrice distilled, those lips which now so freely paid their dues in coined bliss.
  • Whatever its structure, a Noun must always be either (1) the ordinary word for the thing, or (2) a strange word, or (3) a metaphor, or (4) an ornamental word, or (5) a coined word, or (6) a word lengthened out, or (7) curtailed, or (8) altered in form.
  • He does not count his money, but measures it." Cassim desired her to explain the riddle, which she did by telling him the stratagem she had used to make the discovery, and showed him the piece of money, which was so old that they could not tell in what prince's reign it was coined.