{
    "term": "coin",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "image": "data/images/mo/money.png",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a small flat piece of metal used as money",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**gold coins**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a pound/euro/dollar coin"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They flipped a coin to see who should go first."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You might as well toss a coin to decide."
                },
                {
                    "text": "A coin toss has decided the lucky winner."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The first English gold coin was struck in 1255."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The last silver coins were minted in 1964."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Very few old 5p coins are still in circulation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "What is the probability of the coin landing heads?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "coins jingling in his pockets"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Shopping"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["bronze", "copper", "gold"],
                "verb + coin": ["issue", "mint", "strike"],
                "coin + verb": ["be in circulation", "circulate", "clink"],
                "coin + noun": ["purse", "collector", "flip"],
                "phrases": ["the flip of a coin", "the toss of a coin"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "money made of metal",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "notes and coin"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the aspect of a situation that is the opposite of or contrasts with the one you have been talking about",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to talk about two ways of looking at the same situation",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɔɪn/",
                "audio": "co/coin/coin__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kɔɪn/",
                "audio": "co/coin/coin__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French coin ‘wedge, corner, die’, coigner ‘to mint’, from Latin cuneus ‘wedge’. The original sense was ‘cornerstone’, later ‘angle or wedge’ (senses now spelled quoin); in late Middle English the term denoted a die for stamping money, or a piece of money produced by such a die."
}