mint

A plant with strongly scented leaves used to add a fresh taste to food and drinks.

• Add some fresh mint to the salad.
• We grow mint beside the kitchen door.
• Would you like tea with mint?

Common phrases: fresh mint, mint leaves, mint tea, mint sauce

A small sweet with a fresh, strong flavour, often eaten to make your breath smell better.

• Would you like a mint?
• He offered me a mint after lunch.
• She keeps mints in her handbag.

Common phrases: have a mint, packet of mints, after-dinner mint

A building or organization officially allowed to make coins.

• The mint makes new coins.
• Security guards patrol the mint at night.
• Several national mints produce gold coins for collectors.

Similar words: bundle, pile

Common phrases: royal mint, national mint, mint workers, government mint

A very large amount of money.

• That car must have cost a mint.
• She made a mint selling old furniture.
• Your grandfather’s watch could be worth a mint.

Common phrases: make a mint, cost a mint, worth a mint

A light, fresh shade of green.

• She chose mint for the bedroom walls.
• The chairs come in pink and mint.
• A touch of mint brightens the design.

Similar words: mint green

Common phrases: pale mint, shade of mint, mint and white

To make coins officially, usually by pressing a design into metal.

• The government mints new coins every year.
• These silver coins were minted in 1920.
• They plan to mint a coin celebrating the anniversary.

Similar words: strike

Common phrases: mint coins, mint gold coins, mint new currency

To invent or create something new, especially a word or expression.

• The writer minted a new word.
• Advertisers mint fresh phrases to attract attention.
• Who minted that expression?

Similar words: coin, invent, create

Common phrases: mint a word, mint a phrase, mint new terms

Having a light, fresh green colour.

• She wore a mint dress.
• We painted the kitchen a mint colour.
• The mint green curtains match the cushions.

Common phrases: mint green, mint dress, mint walls