mint of money

  • 1mint of money — very large amount of money, fortune …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 2Mint.com — Type Subsidiary of Intuit Industry Personal finance, Software Founded 2006 …

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  • 3Mint — Mint, n. [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}.] 1. A… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 4money — (n.) mid 13c., coinage, metal currency, from O.Fr. monoie money, coin, currency; change (Mod.Fr. monnaie), from L. moneta place for coining money, mint; coined money, money, coinage, from Moneta, a title or surname of the Roman goddess Juno, in… …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 5mint — {{11}}mint (adj.) perfect (like a freshly minted coin), 1887 (in mint condition), from MINT (Cf. mint) (n.2). {{12}}mint (n.1) aromatic herb, O.E. minte (8c.), from W.Gmc. *minta (Cf. O.S. minta, M.D. mente, O.H.G. minza, Ger. Minze), a borrowing …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 6mint´er — mint1 «mihnt», noun. 1. a sweet smelling herb often used for flavoring. Peppermint and spearmint are well known kinds of mint. The mints comprise a genus of the mint family. 2. any other plant of the mint family. 3. a piece of candy, usually… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 7mint — [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

  • 8mint — [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… …

    Word origins

  • 9mint — Synonyms and related words: armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant, atomic energy plant, batch, beget, bindery, block out, boatyard, boilery, bomb, boodle, bookbindery, brand new, breed, brewery, brickyard, bright, bring forth, bring into …

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  • 10mint — mint1 [mint] n. [ME mynt < OE mynet, coin, akin to OHG munizza < Gmc * munita < L moneta, place for coining money < Moneta, epithet of JUNO, in whose temple at Rome money was coined] 1. a) a place where money is coined by authority of …

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