mint Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
    plenty; great deal; pot; sight; flock; slew; mountain; deal; wad; muckle; pile; lot; mickle; raft; quite a little; passel; hatful; mess; spate; heap; peck; stack; good deal; batch; tidy sum; mass.
    • a batch of letters
    • a deal of trouble
    • a lot of money
    • he made a mint on the stock market
    • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
    • it must have cost plenty
    • a slew of journalists
    • a wad of money
  2. noun any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers
  3. noun any member of the mint family of plants
  4. noun the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied
  5. noun a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
    mint candy.
  6. noun a plant where money is coined by authority of the government
  7. verb form by stamping, punching, or printing
    strike; coin.
    • strike coins
    • strike a medal
  8. adjective satellite as if new
    • in mint condition

WordNet

Mint noun
Etymology
AS. minte, fr. L. mentha, Gr. , .
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha. ✍ Corn mint is Mentha arvensis. -- Horsemint is M. sylvestris, and in the United States Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in several respects. -- Mountain mint is any species of the related genus Pycnanthemum, common in North America. -- Peppermint is M. piperita. -- Spearmint is M. viridis. -- Water mint is M. aquatica.
Mint noun
Etymology
AS. mynet money, coin, fr. L. moneta the mint, coined money, fr. Moneta, a surname of Juno, in whose at Rome money was coined; akin to monere to warn, admonish, AS. manian, and to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Money, Monition.
Definitions
  1. A place where money is coined by public authority.
  2. Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
    A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.
Mint transitive verb
Etymology
AS. mynetian.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Minted; present participle & verbal noun Minting
Definitions
  1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
  2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
    Titles... of such natures as may be easily minted. Bacon.

Webster 1913