English
min
see also: Min, MIN
Pronunciation Noun

min (plural mins)

  1. Abbreviation of minute#English|minute.
  2. (colloquial) Clipping of minute#English|minute.
    Dinner's ready, darling! – Be there in a min!
Adjective

min

  1. (obsolete or UK dialectal, Scotland) less
    • Le Bone Florence (late 1300s) attention en
      The more and the minne
Noun

min (plural mins)

  1. (obsolete) Memory; remembrance.
Verb

min (mins, present participle minning; past and past participle minned)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) to bring to the mind of; remind
  2. (transitive, obsolete) to remember
  3. (transitive, obsolete) to mention
Noun

min (plural mins)

  1. Abbreviation of minimum#English|minimum.
  2. (colloquial) Clipping of minimum#English|minimum.
    He's gotta be at least 60, min!
    Antonyms: max
Min
Proper noun
  1. An Ancient Egyptian god of fertility and procreation.
Translations Proper noun
  1. A river in Fujian, China.
  2. A group of related Chinese languages from Fujian, including Min Nan and Min Dong.
  3. A widely construed ethnic group composed of the speakers of those languages.
  4. Fujian province.
    • 1998, Sucheta Mazumdar, Sugar and Society in China: Peasants, Technology and the World Market, Harvard University Asia Center, page 301 ↗:
      […] . They were started by people from Min [Fujian]. Now as a result, the profit is similar to that of Min.”
    • 2007, 钟离图美, Food in China, 五洲传播出版社, pages 18–19 ↗:
      In the early 1900s, because of the joining of regional cuisines of Zhe (Zhejiang), Min (Fujian), Xiang (Hunan) and Hui (Anhui) Cuisines, […]
    • 2013, Angela Schottenhammer, The East Asian “Mediterranean”: A Medium of Flourishing Exchange Relations and Interaction in the East Asian World in 2013, Peter N. Miller, The Sea: Thalassography and Historiography, University of Michigan, page 114 ↗:
      […] ; merchant ships from Min province (Fujian) are called “bird ships” […]
Proper noun
  1. A river in Sichuan, China.
Proper noun
  1. A male given name
  2. A female given name
Proper noun
  1. The Mountain Ok ethnic group of Sandaun, Papua New Guinea.
MIN
Proper noun
  1. (sports) Abbreviation of Minnesota#English|Minnesota.
  2. (sports) Abbreviation of Minneapolis#English|Minneapolis.


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