Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who stamps coins; a minter; a maker of money.
  • noun Specifically A maker of base or counterfeit coins; a counterfeiter.
  • noun An inventor or maker, as of words.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money.
  • noun An inventor or maker, as of words.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who makes coins
  • noun A person who invents words

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a maker of counterfeit coins
  • noun someone who is a source of new words or new expressions
  • noun a skilled worker who coins or stamps money

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Examples

  • In place of a coiner was a slender man holding a pomander before his prominent nose.

    Conan The Invincible Jordan, Robert 1982

  • But it admits of the employment of one person, both as engraver and chief coiner; this we expect may be done, as we presume that any engraver who has been used to work for a coinage, must be well enough acquainted with all the operations of coinage to direct them; and it is an economy worth attention, if we can have the services performed by one officer instead of two, in which case, it is proposed to give him the salary of the chief coiner, that is to say, fifteen hundred dollars

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • Although O’Sullivan is better known as the coiner of "manifest destiny" and, among Hawthorne scholars, as the editor of Democratic Review under whose "glorious reign" a large portion of

    'An Anti-Democratic Habit of Feeling': Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Toryism in O'Sullivan's Democratic Review 2006

  • That the U.S. Government be the sole "coiner" of money and that it simply issue Greenbacks as needed to make the economy flourish, and to pay for public projects.

    Dissident Voice 2009

  • That the U.S. Government be the sole "coiner" of money and that it simply issue Greenbacks as needed to make the economy flourish, and to pay for public projects.

    Dissident Voice 2009

  • That the U.S. Government be the sole "coiner" of money and that it simply issue Greenbacks as needed to make the economy flourish, and to pay for public projects.

    Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines 2009

  • Her daughter, coiner of the phrase “I want to go to there,” apparently wants to go as a bacon-eating robot for Halloween, which is completely genius.

    Tina Fey on Letterman: Cute, but not '30 Rock' | EW.com 2009

  • She is, of course, Miss Paris Hilton – heiress, celebutante, DUI star, and coiner of mid-noughties hipster catchphrase "that's hot".

    When Paris Hilton met Nancy Reagan Marina Hyde 2010

  • But nowadays, we're much more conscious that English wasn't necessarily the coiner of these scientific terms.

    A Back-Story to The Man Who Loved China A Coincidence Most Curious and Telling 2010

  • Goldman Sachs has singled Nigeria out as the only sub-Saharan African country on its "Next 11" fund, and Goldman Sachs' Jim O'Neill, coiner of the term BRIC, has touted Nigeria as the African country to watch.

    Violence Presages Nigeria Poll Will Connors 2011

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  • "Specifically A maker of base or counterfeit coins; a counterfeiter."

    --Cent. Dict.

    August 20, 2012