Definitions
the act of inventing a word or phrase
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English coynage, from Old French coignage, from coignier. By surface analysis, coin + -age.
Used in a sentence
“The Minoan age had not only an elaborate system of weights, but the first beginnings of a coinage.”
“Caution needs to be exercised in regards to claims of coinage as the data contained a number of examples of writers professing the invention of a term that had actually been in existence for many years.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Newly made term”7 letters
02“New word”7 letters
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