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oronymy

oronymy noun: the nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.

Noun

oronymy (countable and uncountable, plural oronymies)

  1. The nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.
    • The specific features of the Rockies oronymy are: a) the relatively young age of the oronyms, b) the prevalence of the transferred geographical names, c) the scarcity of the (printed) documentation, and finally d) the varied lexical inventory of specific names derived from mountain terminology as...1969, Proceedings and Transactions: Actes Et Mémoires, page 122
    • The counterpart to hydronymy is oronymy, that is, the names of all "uplift" features, such as mountains, hills, capes, promontories, and rocks. Broadly interpreted, hydronymy and oronymy may be made to include almost all feature-names.1975, George Rippey Stewart, Names on the globe, page 13

Forms of oronymy

pluraloronymies

Origin of oronymy

From oro- + -onymy.

Questions about oronymy

What does oronymy mean?
Oronymy means the nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.
What part of speech is oronymy?
Oronymy is a noun.
What is the plural of oronymy?
The plural of oronymy is oronymies.

Words near oronymy in the dictionary

  1. Orontes
  2. Orontian
  3. oronym
  4. oronymies
  5. oronyms
  6. oronymy
  7. oropendola
  8. oropendolas
  9. Oropesa
  10. Oropesas
  11. Oropeza

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