minter

Variant of mint

mint definition

mint (mint)

noun

    1. a place where money is coined by authority of the government
    2. a government bureau in charge of this
  2. an apparently unlimited supply; large amount a mint of ideas
  3. Informal a large amount of money; fortune
  4. a source of manufacture or invention

Etymology: 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

adjective

new or in its original condition, as if freshly minted a postage stamp in mint condition

transitive verb

  1. to coin (money) by stamping metal
  2. to invent or create; fabricate

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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