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mintonette

mintonette noun: a game based on basketball and badminton that later developed into volleyball.

Noun

mintonette (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A game based on basketball and badminton that later developed into volleyball.

Origin of mintonette

From badminton + -ette.

Questions about mintonette

What does mintonette mean?
Mintonette means a game based on basketball and badminton that later developed into volleyball.
What part of speech is mintonette?
Mintonette is a noun.

Words near mintonette in the dictionary

  1. mintmasters
  2. mintmen
  3. Minto
  4. Minto Heights
  5. Minton
  6. mintonette
  7. Mintons
  8. mintox
  9. mintplace
  10. mintplaces
  11. Mintrup

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