Meaning of mint In English

• 0 a herb whose leaves have a strong, fresh smell and taste and are used for giving flavour to food:

  • a sprig of mint

  • mint-flavoured gum/toothpaste

  • a packet of extra-strong mints

  • after-dinner chocolate mints

• 1 a place where the new coins of a country are made

  • If his books sell worldwide, he'll make a mint.

• 2 Mint stamps and coins, etc. have not been used:

  • A collector would pay $500 for a mint copy.

  • I bought a two-year-old car, in mint condition, with less than 20,000 miles.

• 3 to produce a coin for the government

• 4 to produce something new, especially to invent a new phrase or word:

  • a freshly minted slogan/phrase

  • newly minted college graduates

• 5 an herb whose leaves have a clean smell and taste, used to flavor food, drinks, and candy

• 6 a place where the new coins and paper money of a country are made

  • The new roof cost us a mint.

• 7 to make a new coin

• 8 a place where the coins and paper money of a country are made:

  • The U.S. Mint issued about 8.23 billion pennies last year.

• 9 an extremely large amount of money:

  • The whole crazy project took ten years and cost a mint.

  • make a mint from/on/out of sth The movie studio is likely to make a mint on the film.

• 10 something that is in mint condition looks or works almost like it is new:

  • To get a good sale price, both the record and its cover should be in mint condition.

• 11 if a government mints a coin, it makes it:

  • It costs more to mint a coin than to print a bill.