Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • A variant of mint.
  • A common suffix of Latin origin, forming, from verbs, nouns which usually denote the results of an act or the act itself, as in aliment, fragment, segment, commandment, document, monument, government, etc.
  • An obsolete preterit of ming.
  • An obsolete preterit of mean

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • p. p. of menge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of meng.
  • verb Obsolete spelling of meant.

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  • "ment" in Hungarian means: went

    August 7, 2012