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monadnock

/məˈnædˌnɒk/

monadnock noun: a hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.

Noun

monadnock (plural monadnocks)

  1. A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.
    • Eastward from the White Mountains, the open sea of the upland country comes right to the monadnock shore, with hardly an outlying island; southward the upland is covered for miles by an archipelago of monadnock groups and peaks.1901, Philip Emerson, “Notes on the New England Upland about the White Mountains”, in Appalachia, volume IX, page 57
    Synonyms:
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Synonyms of monadnock

Forms of monadnock

pluralmonadnocks

Origin of monadnock

From the name of Mount Monadnock in New England, which derives from an Abenaki word, perhaps menonadenak, menonadenek (“smooth mountain”) or menadenak, menadenek (“isolated mountain”), from aden (“mountain”).

Questions about monadnock

What does monadnock mean?
Monadnock means a hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.
What part of speech is monadnock?
Monadnock is a noun.
How do you pronounce monadnock?
Monadnock is pronounced /məˈnædˌnɒk/.
What is the plural of monadnock?
The plural of monadnock is monadnocks.

Words near monadnock in the dictionary

  1. monadism
  2. monadisms
  3. monadist
  4. monadistic
  5. monadists
  6. monadnock
  7. monadnocks
  8. monadological
  9. monadologies
  10. monadology
  11. monadoxanthin

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