Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government.
- noun A place or source of manufacture or invention.
- noun An abundant amount, especially of money.
- transitive verb To produce (money) by stamping metal; coin.
- transitive verb To invent or fabricate.
- adjective Undamaged as if freshly minted.
- noun A member of the mint family.
- noun Any of various rhizomatous plants of the genus Mentha of the mint family, characteristically having nearly regular white or purple flowers. Some species are cultivated for their aromatic oil and foliage.
- noun The leaves of some of these plants, used as a seasoning.
- noun Any of various similar or related plants, such as the stone mint.
- noun A candy flavored with natural or artificial mint flavoring.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To aim; purpose; endeavor.
- To insinuate; hint.
- noun A coin; coin; coined money; money.
- noun A place where money is coined by public authority.
- noun Figuratively, a source of fabrication or invention.
- noun A quantity such as a mint turns out; a great supply or store: as, a mint of money.
- noun [capitalized] A place of privilege or asylum in Southwark, London, near the Queen's Prison, where persons sheltered themselves from justice, under the pretext that this place was an ancient palace of the crown. (Rapalje and Lawrence.) The privilege is now abolished.
- noun The crisped or curled mint, Mentha crispa.
- noun The catmint or catnip.
- noun The horsemint, M. longifolia.
- noun The bergamot-mint, M. citrata.
- noun Spearmint.
- noun The Oswego tea, Monarda didyma.
- noun The wood-calamint, Clinopodium Calamintha.
- noun A plant of the genus Mentha.
- noun One of several other, mostly labiate, plants with mint-like properties. Compare
catmint . - To coin; stamp and convert into money.
- To invent; forge; fabricate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See
mentha . - noun (Chem.) See
Menthol . - noun See
Julep . - noun a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.
- noun A place where money is coined by public authority.
- noun Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
- noun A large quantity of money.
- transitive verb To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
- transitive verb To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
- transitive verb a coining press.
- adjective Like new; in brand-new condition; unworn, as a coin recently made at a mint{1}.
- adjective (Numismatics) Uncirculated; in the same condition as when it was freshly coined at the mint{1}.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A building or institution where money (originally, only
coins ) is produced under government licence. - noun informal A large amount of
money . Avast sum oramount , etc. - verb transitive To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
- adjective Of condition, as new.
- adjective numismatics In near-
perfect condition;uncirculated . - adjective philately
Unused with original gum; as issued originally. - adjective slang Very good.
- verb intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland To
try ,attempt ; takeaim .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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This looks great and the mint is an interesting add.
Cooking from other blogs:Matar Paneer with Mint.......... Cardamom 2009
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Two had blue swallow-tailed coats with brass buttons; and a fourth, a dashing young lawyer's clerk from Clement's Inn, was absolutely stirring a mixture, which he called a mint julep, with a yellow kid glove dangling out of his hand.
The Three Clerks Anthony Trollope 1848
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For thin mint lovers, there is a Thin Mint Ice Cream from Dreyers, too
Baking Bites » Print » Dreyers’s Samoas Ice Cream, reviewed 2009
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And as if the traditional food weren't enough, local restaurants offer such gourmet dishes as rack of lamb in mint and rosemary sauce, chicken in cilantro cream, beef filet in marrow sauce, and shrimp and nopal tacos.
Making merry in May: Mexico's National Cheese and Wine Festival 2009
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I know Keebler sells a version of the thin mint cookies at the grocery stores now.
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I * LOVE* thin mint cookies, but only just liked this ice cream.
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* My 1996 Element was in mint condition with only 26,000 miles on it when I drove it to Texas to sell to a Honda dealer.
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When I moved to the UK, I left behind a shed full of books, mostly in mint condition.
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* My 1996 Element was in mint condition with only 26,000 miles on it when I drove it to Texas to sell to a Honda dealer.
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For thin mint lovers, there is a Thin Mint Ice Cream from Dreyers, too
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One idea he had was to let people create (or “mint,” in blockchain-speak) NFTs based on his random-item generator for free — essentially just to see what would happen.
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reesetee commented on the word mint
In book collecting, describes an absolutely perfect copy; a copy as perfect as the day it was issued.
February 25, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word mint
I think this WeirdNet definition is borrowed from lot: you can make a mint, i.e. a lot, but does anyone talk about a mint of even wealth, let alone other things?
September 29, 2008