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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.
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name
A placename:
A minor city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States, originally named Mole Hill.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A number of townships in the United States, listed under Mountain Township.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A rural municipality in western Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Mountain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A hamlet near Queensbury, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0930).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A placename:
A huge province in the Cordilleras composed of the subprovinces of Apayao, Amburayan, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto-Bontoc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: Mountain Province
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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name
The Montagnard party in the time of the French Revolution.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, historical, uncountable, with-definite-article
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noun
An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Synonyms: mount
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A difficult task or challenge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, uncountable
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noun
A woman's large breast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang
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noun
The twenty-first Lenormand card.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: cartomancy, human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: rail-transport, railways, transport
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noun
a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: mount
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: natural elevation, elevation
Narrower terms: alp, ben, seamount, volcano, Black Hills
noun
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
Narrower terms: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
History
From mountain.
From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌 (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native English barrow (from Old English beorg) and down (from Old English dūn), and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).
Across languages
569 source translations are retained for this English entry.
