Log in or Sign up
  1. numismatics love

Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The study or collection of money, coins, and often medals.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The science that treats of coins and medals, with especial reference to their history, artistic quality, description, and classification. The name coin is in modern numismatics given to pieces of metal impressed for the purpose of circulation as money, while the name medal is applied to impressed pieces of similar character to coins, but not intended for circulation as money, which are designed and distributed in commemoration of some person or event. Ancient coins, however, are by collectors often called medals. The parts of a coin or medal are the obverse or face, containing generally the head, bust, or figure of the sovereign or person in whose honor the medal was struck, or some emblematic figure relating to the person or country, etc., and the reverse, containing various designs or winds. The lettering around the border forms the legend; that in the middle or field, the inscription. The lower part of the coin, often separated by a line from the designs or the inscription, is the basis or exergue, and commonly contains the date, the place where the piece was struck, the emblem or signature of the artist or of some official, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The study of coins (or of medals)
  2. n. The collecting of coins (or of medals)

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The science of coins and medals.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the collection and study of money (and coins in particular)

Etymologies

  1. From French numismatique, from Late Latin numisma, numismatis ("coin"), variant of Latin nomisma, from Ancient Greek νόμισμα (nomisma, "current coin, custom"), from νομίζω (nomizō, "I hold or own as a custom, usage, I use customarily, practise, I am used to"), from νόμος (nomos, "usage, custom"), from νέμω (nemō, "I keep, hold, watch"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

Show 10 more examples...

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. aggregation
  1. collecting
  1. collection
  1. assembling

rhymes (14)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Charismatics
  2. acrobatics
  1. aerobatics
  2. attics
  1. automatics
  2. batiks
  1. charismatics
  2. dramatics
  1. fanatics
  2. informatics
  1. mathematics
  2. pneumatics
  1. systematics
  2. telematics

reverse dictionary (36)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. obverse
  2. hyperper
  3. lex
  4. mute
  5. passant
  6. recuse
  7. tressure
  1. numismatic
  2. numismatist
  3. numismatography
  4. pied-fort
  5. surfrappé
  6. brockage
  7. decalitron
  1. double-struck
  2. jugata
  3. accolated
  4. numismatology
  5. bijugate
  6. bracteate
  7. exergue
  1. field
  2. jugate
  3. legend
  4. module
  5. mule
  6. pattern
  7. pellet
  1. proof
  2. reverse
  3. series
  4. symbol
  5. laureate
  6. numis
  7. restrike
  1. type

tagging (3)

Words tagged ‘numismatics’

  1. adarkon
  1. couronne
  1. dandiprat

Wordmap

(beta)

Word visualization

Lists

These user-created lists contain the word ‘numismatics’.

More lists containing ‘numismatics’

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.

  • justkristin This is one of those words that elude entry into my brain in any permanent way, despite having looked it up numerous times. May 26, 2010

Tweets

Looking for tweets for numismatics.

‘numismatics’ has been looked up 1181 times, loved by 2 people, added to 28 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 17.