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
