mint

Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

Adjective abbreviation, alt of

  1. Ellipsis of mint condition: like new.
    • Most of my collection is near mint, but these ones here are mint.
    • Trading card sales have taken off, too. The price of mint condition cards on StockX jumped to an average $775 in January from $280 a year ago. - 2021 March 13, Erin Griffith, “From Crypto Art to Trading Cards,...
  2. In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
  3. Unused with original gum; as issued originally.

    Coordinate Terms: MNG NM

  4. Very good, excellent.
    • And my God, what a house it was – it was mint! In all my life I had never set foot in such a beautiful place. - 2014, Holly Hagan, Not Quite a Geordie:
    • “Everyone was having a beano, everyone was partying, the music was going, it was mint – as soon as England won we booked it.” - 2024 July 14, Rachel Hall, quoting Ashley Cullen, “‘I’ve never seen owt like it’: England...
  5. Attractive; beautiful; handsome.

Origin

From Middle English mynt, münet (“money, coin”), from Old English mynet (“coin”), from late Proto-West Germanic *munit, from Latin monēta (“place for making coins, coined money”), from the temple of Juno Moneta (named for Monēta mother of the Muses), where coins were made. Doublet of money and manat. The verb is from the noun; Old English mynetian (“to mint”) is a parallel formation.

Related

bullion

Derived

near-mint mintage minted mintmark

Adjective not comparable

  1. Of a green color, like that of the mint plant.

Origin

Etymology tree Latin mentabor. Proto-West Germanic *mintā Old English minte Middle English mynte English mint From Middle English mynte, from Old English minte (“mint plant”), from Proto-West Germanic *mintā (“mint”), from Latin menta, probably from a lost Mediterranean language either through Ancient Greek μίνθη (mínthē), μίνθα (míntha) or directly. Akin to Old Norse minta (“mint”). Doublet of mentha.

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Noun Entry 3

  1. Any plant in the genus Mentha in the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.

    Synonyms: mentha

  2. The flavoring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
  3. A green color, like that of mint.
  4. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.

Forms

mints

Hyponyms

coleus

Related

calamint menthol

Derived

apple mint apple-scented mint bergamot mint brandy mint breast mint breath mint brook mint brown mint buttermint catmint chocolate mint corn mint Corsican mint crisped mint crisp mint curled mint double bubble mint Eau de Cologne mint energy mint field mint fish mint freshmint garden mint gingermint

Noun Entry 4

  1. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
  2. A vast sum of money; (by extension) a large amount of something.
    • That house is worth a mint.
    • It must have cost a mint to produce!
    • to make a mint

    Synonyms: bundle pile small fortune

  3. Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
    • A mint of phrases in his brain. - c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

Forms

mints

Related

money monetary

Derived

master of the mint mint condition mintless mintman mintmaster mint par mint par of exchange warden of the mint

Noun Northern England, Scotland

  1. An intent, a purpose; an attempt, a try; an effort, an endeavor.

Origin

From Middle English minten, from Old English myntan (“to mean, intend, purpose, determine, resolve”), from Proto-West Germanic *muntijan (“to think, consider”), from Proto-Indo-European *men-, *mnā- (“to think”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian mintsje, muntsje (“to aim, target”), Dutch munten (“to aim at, target”), German Low German münten (“to aim at”), German münzen (“to aim at”), Dutch monter (“cheerful, gladsome, spry”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns, “thought, opinion”), Old English munan (“to be mindful of, consider, intend”). More at mind.

Forms

mints

Verb Entry 6

  1. To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
    • For some time past the legal currency in the various Provinces has been insufficient for use. Formerly the two Provinces of Fuchien and Kuangtung minted some large, round copper coins of excellent workmanship that were...
    • The Central Bank discontinued minting kopeks gradually. In 2012, the regulatory body stopped minting one-kopek and five-kopek coins. In 2018, the Central Bank stopped minting kopeks completely and now mints only ruble...
  2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
    • Titles […] as may appeare to be easily minted - a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable...
    • China’s newly minted national parks don’t just safeguard famous keystone species such as Siberian tigers, giant pandas and Hainan gibbons. They are also designed to preserve the shrinking ecosystems that support such...
  3. To create a crypto token.
    • Beeple’s collaged JPG was made, or “minted,” in February as a “nonfungible token,” or NFT. - 2021 March 11, Scott Reyburn, “JPG File Sells for $69 Million, as ‘NFT Mania’ Gathers Pace”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

    Coordinate Terms: mine

Forms

mints minting minted

Derived

mintable remint

Verb Northern England, Scotland

  1. To try, attempt; take aim.
  2. To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
  3. To hint; suggest; insinuate.

Forms

mints minting minted