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mento

mento noun: a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.

Noun

mento (countable and uncountable, plural mentos)

  1. a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.
    • Musician who never meet before the journey entertain we with mento song.2020, Paul Mendez, Rainbow Milk, Dialogue Books (2021), page 19
  2. an individual mento song.

Proper noun capitalized: Mento

Mento (plural Mentos)

  1. A surname from Italian.

Forms of mento

Noun
pluralmentos
Proper noun
pluralMentos

Origin of mento

Borrowed from Italian Mento.

Words that rhyme with mento

Questions about mento

What does mento mean?
Mento means a folk music genre of Jamaica, featuring acoustic instruments and voices.
What part of speech is mento?
Mento can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of mento?
The plural of mento is mentos.

Words near mento in the dictionary

  1. mentionitis
  2. mentionless
  3. mentions
  4. mentlegen
  5. Mentmore
  6. mento
  7. mento-
  8. mentoanterior
  9. mentobregmatic
  10. mentolabial
  11. mentomeckelian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mento (page history and authors); Mento (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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