coinage
coinage — 名詞
- coinagesingular
- coinagesplural
1. the metal money pieces — such as a country's pennies, dimes, or yen coins — that
硬幣
一國使用的整套金屬貨幣
the metal money pieces — such as a country's pennies, dimes, or yen coins — that its government produces and its people use to buy things
The euro coinage includes pieces from eight different denominations, from one cent to two euros.
歐元硬幣涵蓋八種不同面額，從一分到兩歐元。
collocation: coinage + of [denominations]
Visitors to Britain often keep old penny coins as souvenirs of the country's coinage.
到英國的遊客常保留幾枚舊便士，作為該國硬幣的紀念品。
The museum displays a rare collection of silver coinage from the Ming dynasty period.
這間博物館展出罕見的明代銀製硬幣收藏。
collocation: silver coinage / gold coinage
Some countries have replaced most of their coinage with paper bills or digital payments.
有些國家已將大部分硬幣淘汰，改用紙鈔或數位支付。
Ravi found enough coinage in his pockets to buy a coffee at the station.
Ravi 在口袋裡找到足夠的硬幣，在車站買了一杯咖啡。
uncountable use as collective coins
- silver coinage
- gold coinage
- copper coinage
- decimal coinage
- the country's coinage
- the realm's coinage
- paper money
banknotes used alongside or instead of metal coins
- banknotes
paper currency as opposed to metal coinage
用法筆記
Uncountable only in this sense. Refers to coins as a collective system, not individual pieces. For a single piece of money, use the countable noun 'coin'.
常見錯誤
2. a term or expression that a speaker or writer creates for the first time — like
新創詞
最近被發明出來的新詞或新說法
a term or expression that a speaker or writer creates for the first time — like 'selfie' or 'blog' — and that spreads into everyday use; also the process of creating such a term
The word 'selfie' is a relatively recent coinage that spread quickly through social media.
「selfie」一詞是相對近期的新創詞，透過社群媒體迅速傳播開來。
collocation: recent coinage
Linguists study how a new coinage enters a language and whether it survives over time.
語言學家研究新創詞如何進入語言，以及它是否能隨著時間留存下來。
coinage + enters a language (subject-verb pattern)
Aiko's playful coinage — 'hangry' for hungry and angry — became popular among her classmates.
Aiko 開玩笑創造的詞「hangry」（結合 hungry 和 angry 而來）在同學之間流行了起來。
countable use: a coinage (a specific invented word)
Many internet coinages, such as 'meme' and 'tweet', are now found in standard dictionaries.
許多網路新創詞，如「meme」和「tweet」，現在都已收錄在標準字典中。
plural form: coinages
The Oxford English Dictionary records the first known use of each historical coinage it lists.
《牛津英語詞典》記錄了其所收錄的每個歷史新創詞的首次使用記錄。
- recent coinage
- modern coinage
- new coinage
- popular coinage
- linguistic coinage
- internet coinage
- archaism
an old or outdated word that is no longer in common use
- obsolete word
a word that has fallen out of use in the language
用法筆記
Can be countable (referring to a specific invented word, e.g. 'a recent coinage') or uncountable (referring to the process, e.g. 'the coinage of new terms'). Common in linguistic and literary discussion.