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Montclair

Montclair proper noun: a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.

Proper noun

Montclair

  1. A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
  2. A township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
    • Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said.2024 June 20, Wayne Parry, “U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2024
  3. A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.
    • That was where he grew up […] near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like...2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 137

Origin of Montclair

From French mont (“mountain”) + clair (“clear”).

Words formed from Montclair

Questions about Montclair

What does Montclair mean?
Montclair means a city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
What part of speech is Montclair?
Montclair is a proper noun.

Words near Montclair in the dictionary

  1. Montbéliarde
  2. Montbéliardes
  3. Montcalm
  4. Montcalm County
  5. Montceau-les-Mines
  6. Montclair
  7. Montco
  8. monte
  9. Monte Albán
  10. Monte Alegre
  11. Monte Carlian

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