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mino

UK/ˈmɪnəʊ/US/ˈmɪnoʊ/

mino noun: a traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw. Also the archaic form of myna.

Noun

mino (plural mino)

  1. (historical) A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.

Proper noun capitalized: Mino

Mino

  1. A city in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.

Also used as

mino is also the archaic form of myna.

Forms of mino

pluralmino
pluralminos

Origin of mino

Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).

Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).

Words formed from mino

Phrases with mino

Questions about mino

What does mino mean?
Mino means a traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.
What part of speech is mino?
Mino can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mino?
Mino is pronounced /ˈmɪnəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of mino?
The plural of mino is mino.

Words near mino in the dictionary

  1. minnowing
  2. minnowlike
  3. minnows
  4. Minns
  5. minny
  6. mino
  7. mino bird
  8. mino birds
  9. Minoa
  10. Minoan
  11. Minoanist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mino (page history and authors); Mino (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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