/ˈmɒnti/
OriginBorrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.
- uncountableA 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.”
- Latin-America, countableA wood or forest; timberland.
Formsmontes(plural) · Montes(plural)