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