min

1. 1.

   a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour

   “he ran a 4 minute mile”

   Synonymsminute

   Broadertime unit

   Part ofhour

   Partssecond
2. 2.

   any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province

   SynonymsMin dialectFukienFukkianeseHokkianeseAmoyTaiwanese

   BroaderChinese
3. 3.

   an Egyptian god of procreation

   BroaderEgyptian deity

Other forms of min

plural

mins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about min

What does min mean?

min means "a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in min?

min has 1 syllable: min. In IPA it is /ˈmɪn/.

What is another word for min?

Close synonyms include minute, Min dialect, Fukien, Fukkianese, Hokkianese. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is min a common word?

min is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.