Meaning

2 senses
  1. (informal, uncountable)Minoxidil

  2. (obsolete)Memory; remembrance.

More definitions
  • any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province
  • an Egyptian god of procreation
  • a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Teochew is a dialect of Min Nan.

  2. Far min hjelpte meg med leksene.

  3. Please give us a 20-30 min. time slot for our presentation.

  4. Add the flour and baking powder, then the butter and leftover milk; let stand for 15 min.

  5. The major dialects spoken in Fujian Province include Min, Hakka, Wu, Gan, and Nanping Mandarin.

Origin

From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (“mind, intent, desire, love”

From Middle English min, minne, partly from Old English myne (“mind, intent, desire, love”), from Proto-West Germanic *muni, from Proto-Germanic *muniz (“mind, memory”); and also from Old Norse minni (“memory”), from Proto-Germanic *gaminþiją (“memory, remembrance”); both from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think”). Related to Icelandic minni (“memory”), German Minne (“love”).

Clipping of minoxidil.

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Forms

plural: mins
Singularmin
Pluralmins

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province:Min dialectFukienFukkianeseHokkianeseAmoyTaiwaneseAmoy languageFukkianese language
  • a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour:minute

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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