Main Entry:

mon·te

Pronunciation:

\ˈmän-tē\

Function:

noun

Etymology:

Spanish, bank, mountain, heap, from Italian, from Latin mont-, mons mountain

Date:

1824

1 : a card game in which players select any two of four cards turned face up in a layout and bet that one of them will be matched before the other as cards are dealt one at a time from the pack —called also monte bank 2 : three-card monte