mint

Universal Words noun, verb noun 1 [U] a plant with dark green leaves that have a fresh smell and taste and are added to food and drinks to give flavour, and used in cooking as a herb and to decorate food: mint-flavoured toothpaste * I decorated the fruit salad with a sprig of mint. * roast lamb with mint sauce 2 [C] a sweet/candy flavoured with a type of mint called PEPPERMINT: after-dinner mints 3 [C] a place where money is made: the Royal Mint (= the one where British money is made) * The bills were fresh from the mint. 4 (a mint) [sing.] (informal) a large amount of money: to make / cost a mint * They must be worth a mint. IDIOMS in mint condition new or as good as new; in perfect condition verb [VN] to make a coin from metal