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monte¹

  • /ˈmɒnti/

Rhymes with -ɒnti

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.

noun montes

  1. uncountable A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt. A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
  2. Latin America, countable A wood or forest; timberland.

Monte²

Where it comes from

From Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian, from monte.

proper noun Montes

  1. A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: three-card monte, four-card monte, ride, climb, get, reassemble, reinstall, attach, set, press, install, screw, assemble, method, drive, fit

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"monte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/monte. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

APA

monte. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/monte

Chicago

"monte." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 5, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/monte.

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@misc{monte_2026,
  title = {monte},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/monte},
  urldate = {2026-11-05}
}