Monte

//ˈmɒnti// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable

    "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. 2
    a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 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 wordnet
  3. 3
    A wood or forest; timberland. Latin-America, countable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Synonyms

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blackjackbridgefour card montegamethree card montethree-card monte

Example

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"This software carries out Markov Chain Monte Carlo calculations by the use of Gibbs Sampling."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

From Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian, from monte.

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