mountain
Meanings
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.
- Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
- A difficult task or challenge.
- Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
- A woman's large breast.
- The twenty-first Lenormand card.
name
- A placename:
- A minor city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States, originally named Mole Hill.
- A town and census-designated place therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Mountain Township.
- A rural municipality in western Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Mountain.
- A hamlet near Queensbury, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0930).
- A huge province in the Cordilleras composed of the subprovinces of Apayao, Amburayan, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto-Bontoc.
- A surname.
- The Montagnard party in the time of the French Revolution.
noun
- A steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.
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Etymology
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).
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