mint

  • 31mint — I UK [mɪnt] / US noun Word forms mint : singular mint plural mints 1) [uncountable] a small plant with green leaves that have a strong smell, used for adding flavour to food. Mint is a herb. 2) [countable] a sweet that tastes like peppermint 3)… …

    English dictionary

  • 32Mint — The primary producer of a country s coin currency. The mint has the consent of the government to manufacture coins to be used as legal tender. Along with production, the mint is also responsible for the distribution of the currency, protection of …

    Investment dictionary

  • 33mint — 1. n. a lot of money. □ He makes a mint. He can afford a little generosity. □ That kind of car costs a mint! 2. mod. good looking; superior. (As in mint condition.) □ Look at that guy. He’s really mint, right? …

    Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • 34Mint — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Mint peut désigner : Mint fut une radio belge du groupe Radio H (pôle radio du groupe RTL en Belgique) « Mint », un anglicisme couramment… …

    Wikipédia en Français

  • 35mint — 1. verb /mɪnt/ a) To try, attempt; take aim. b) To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to pu …

    Wiktionary

  • 36mint — SYN: Mentha. [G. mintha] * * * Myocardial Infarction with Novastan and Tissue Plasminogen Activator Study * * * mint mint n any of a family (Labiatae, the mint family) of aromatic plants with a square stem and a four lobed ovary which produces… …

    Medical dictionary

  • 37Mint —    (Gr. heduosmon, i.e., having a sweet smell ), one of the garden herbs of which the Pharisees paid tithes (Matt. 23:23; Luke 11:42). It belongs to the labiate family of plants. The species most common in Syria is the Mentha sylvestris, the wild …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 38mint — 1 noun 1 (C, U) a sweet that tastes of peppermint (=a strong tasting substance obtained from a plant) 2 (U) a small plant with leaves that have a fresh smell and taste and are used in cooking 3 in mint condition looking new and in perfect… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 39mint — mịnt 〈Adj.; undekl.〉 blassgrün; Sy mintfarben [<engl. mint „Minze“] * * * mịnt <indekl. Adj.> [zu engl. mint = Minze, nach der Farbe der Blätter]: von einem blassen, leicht blaustichigen Grün. * * * mịnt <indekl. Adj.> [zu engl …

    Universal-Lexikon

  • 40mint — [OE] English has two completely unconnected words mint. The ‘money factory’ comes ultimately from Latin monēta ‘mint, money’ (source also of English money). It was borrowed into prehistoric West Germanic as *munita, which in due course produced… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins