Used in a Sentence

minnie

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for minnie.

Editorial note

Let Mickey and Minnie have kids, and make that part of the Mickey Mouse canon.

Examples12
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A surname.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of minnie gathered in one view.

noun

A surname.

noun

Alternative spelling of minnow. [Any small fish.]

noun

(US, slang) Minneapolis.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for minnie.

noun

A surname.

noun

Alternative spelling of minnow. [Any small fish.]

noun

(US, slang) Minneapolis.

noun

(World War I military slang) A minenwerfer trench mortar.

Example sentences

1

Let Mickey and Minnie have kids, and make that part of the Mickey Mouse canon.

2

No, I think by critical mass he means your Aunt Minnie knows about it and asked if you are using Twitter at the last family gathering.

3

Aunt Minnie was injured on a sidewalk made slippery by seasonal ice.

4

Fun movie trivia: Maya Rudolph (Rita) is the daughter of Minnie Ripperton.

5

For example, Aunt Minnie is in the hospital.

6

The answer from an intelligent alien who was context-naive might be something like so: Aunt Minnie is a human being living in the 21st century Western culture of Earth.

7

Aunt Minnie will never know about StackOverflow.

8

I have a volume of reprints where Mickey gets jealous of another dude going after Minnie Mouse, and tries to kill himself with a gun, jumping off a bridge, drowning and with gas.

9

For an extra $30, you can send the telegram with (e.g.) two dolls of Micky and Minnie Mouse dressed in bridal attire holding a scroll case for the telegram, so that it can be held on the gift table until the bride and groom have the opportunity to read it.

Quote examples

1

The other answers are appropriate for other questions ("How did Aunt Minnie get to hospital" etc).

2

Put another way, people make web pages with sentences like "Aunt Minnie is in the hospital because she fell and broke her hip", and don't make web pages with sentences like "Aunt Minnie is in the hospital because the ambulance was headed there and the friction between Aunt Minnie and the bed in the ambulance was high enough to keep them from becoming relatively displaced".

Proper noun examples

1

Minnie balls, Spenser Rifles, trenches, revetments and mechanized transport by rail and steamship contributed to the 1,000,000 deaths in the US Civil War.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use minnie in a sentence?

Let Mickey and Minnie have kids, and make that part of the Mickey Mouse canon.

What does minnie mean?

A surname.

What part of speech is minnie?

minnie is commonly used as noun.