Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A card game in which two cards are chosen from four laid out face-up and a player bets that one of the two will be matched in suit by the dealer before the other one.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tract more or less thickly covered with shrubby vegetation or scanty forests; a forest.
  • noun A favorite Spanish and Spanish-American gambling-game, played with the Spanish pack of forty cards.

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

  • noun In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.
  • noun A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.
  • noun a gambling game using playing cards, in which a dealer shows a bettor three cards face up and specifies one to be identified, and after the cards are turned face down and moved around quickly, the bettor must identify which of the three cards is the specified card. It is sometimes engaged in by dealers on the streets of a city, with bets made by passers-by.

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

  • noun card games a game in which 3 or 4 cards are dealt face-up and players bet which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, mountain, pile, monte, from Italian, from Latin mōns, mont-, mountain; see men- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • The word monte signifies more frequently, in the colonies, a forest (bosque) than a mountain, and this circumstance has led to great errors in our maps, on which chains of mountains (sierras) are figured, where there are only thick forests,

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The word monte signifies more frequently, in the colonies, a forest (bosque) than a mountain, and this circumstance has led to great errors in our maps, on which chains of mountains

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

  • Season the sauce with S&P and butter, also known as monte au beurre, and pour sauce over shanks and linguini.

    Archive 2005-12-01 e d b m 2005

  • Season the sauce with S&P and butter, also known as monte au beurre, and pour sauce over shanks and linguini.

    The Gift of Gluttony: Part One - The Osso Buco Veal Shanks Recipe e d b m 2005

  • Known as monte coca or coca coca, these were occasionally used to adulterate shipments of coca destined for the markets of Cuzco.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Known as monte coca or coca coca, these were occasionally used to adulterate shipments of coca destined for the markets of Cuzco.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • The monte is the pasture land immediately above the highest enclosed meadows and below the alpe.

    Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino 1881

  • xviiOne of these banks, operating since 1472, still carries the medieval word monte: the Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • xviiOne of these banks, operating since 1472, still carries the medieval word monte: the Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • Another issue is the increasing complexity of multivariate statistical analsis and iterative nonparametric techniques such as monte carlo simulation and covariance structural modeling--these are fairly recent advances in computer based iterative statistical techniques and not well understood by an older generation of academics.

    "Crisis = opportunity + danger." Ann Althouse 2007

  • Theoretical physicists Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Kovrizhin from the University of Oxford and the Hebrew University in Israel applied Monte Carlo simulations (computations used to generate probabilities) to quantum objects moving through various dimensions and found that classical systems cannot create the mathematics necessary to describe quantum systems.

    Physicists Confirm That We're Not Living In a Computer Simulation Allison Eck 2017

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