US /mɑnt/ UK /mɒnt/
noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    a mountain or hill, chiefly in place names

    The pilgrims climbed toward the abbey perched atop the mont.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a mountain or hill, chiefly... mountainhillmountpeak
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Related forms mountmountainmontane

Etymology

From French mont ('mountain'), from Latin mōns (genitive montis, 'mountain'), from Proto-Indo-European *men- ('to project, jut out').

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