noun
Meaning 1
A principal mountain mass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
massif
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/mæˈsiːf/
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/ˈmæsɪf/
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rhymes with -iːf
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CMU ARPABET: M AE0 S IY1 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 2
A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: geological formation, formation
Narrower terms: Massif Central
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French massif, from Middle French massif, ultimately from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”).
Across languages
Translations
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: نَجْد (najd) — principal mountain mass
- Aragonese: macizo — principal mountain mass
- Azerbaijani: massiv — principal mountain mass
- Basque: mendigune — principal mountain mass
- Belarusian: масі́ў (masíw) — principal mountain mass
- Bulgarian: маси́в (masív) — principal mountain mass
- Catalan: massís — principal mountain mass
- Chinese Cantonese: 山體 /山体 (saan1 tai2) — principal mountain mass
- Chinese Cantonese: 体 (saan1 tai2) — principal mountain mass
- Chinese Mandarin: 山體 /山体 (shāntǐ) — principal mountain mass
- Czech: masiv — principal mountain mass
- Danish: massiv — principal mountain mass
- Danish: bjergmassiv — principal mountain mass
- Dutch: massief — principal mountain mass
- Dutch: bergmassief — principal mountain mass
- Esperanto: masivo — principal mountain mass
- Estonian: massiiv — principal mountain mass
- Finnish: massiivi — principal mountain mass
- French: massif — principal mountain mass
- Galician: macizo — principal mountain mass
- Georgian: მასივი (masivi) — principal mountain mass
- German: Massiv — principal mountain mass
- German: Massiv — principal mountain mass
- Greek: μασίφ (masíf) — principal mountain mass
- Hebrew: מַסִּיף (massif) — principal mountain mass
- Hindi: पुंजक (puñjak) — principal mountain mass
- Hindi: मैसिफ़ (maisif) — principal mountain mass
- Hungarian: masszívum — principal mountain mass
- Indonesian: masif — principal mountain mass
- Irish: masaíf — principal mountain mass
- Italian: massiccio — principal mountain mass
- Japanese: 山塊 (sankai) — principal mountain mass
- Kazakh: массив (massiv) — principal mountain mass
- Korean: 육괴 (yukgoe) — principal mountain mass
- Northern Kurdish: masif — principal mountain mass
- Kyrgyz: массив (massiv) — principal mountain mass
- Latvian: masīvs — principal mountain mass
- Lithuanian: masyvas — principal mountain mass
- Macedonian: масив (masiv) — principal mountain mass
- Malay: massif — principal mountain mass
- Manx: glout-sleitagh — principal mountain mass
- Norwegian Bokmål: massiv — principal mountain mass
- Norwegian Bokmål: fjellmassiv — principal mountain mass
- Norwegian Nynorsk: massiv — principal mountain mass
- Occitan: massís — principal mountain mass
- Persian: تودهکوه (tude kuh) — principal mountain mass
- Polish: masyw — principal mountain mass
- Portuguese: maciço — principal mountain mass
- Romanian: masiv — principal mountain mass
- Russian: масси́в (massív) — principal mountain mass
- Serbo-Croatian: ма̀сӣв — principal mountain mass
- Serbo-Croatian: màsīv — principal mountain mass
- Slovak: masív — principal mountain mass
- Slovene: masiv — principal mountain mass
- Spanish: macizo — principal mountain mass
- Swedish: massiv — principal mountain mass
- Swedish: bergsmassiv — principal mountain mass
- Tajik: массив (massiv) — principal mountain mass
- Turkish: masif — principal mountain mass
- Turkmen: massiw — principal mountain mass
- Ukrainian: маси́в (masýv) — principal mountain mass
- Uzbek: massiv — principal mountain mass
- Uzbek: массив (massiv) — principal mountain mass
- Vietnamese: khối núi — principal mountain mass
- Volapük: masif — principal mountain mass
- Chinese Mandarin: 地塊 /地块 (dìkuài) — block of the earth's crust
- Finnish: massiivi — block of the earth's crust
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