mountain

Meaning

1. 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.
2. Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
3. A difficult task or challenge.
4. Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
5. (slang) A woman's large breast.
6. The twenty-first Lenormand card.

Concepts

mountain

hill

mount

forested

pile

heap

rock

cliff

stack

inselberg

stone

batch

plateau

fell

good deal

great deal

hatful

lot

mass

mess

pot

raft

peak

pinnacle

highlands

mountainlike

mountainous

high hill

deal

flock

mickle

mint

muckle

passel

peck

plenty

quite a little

sight

slew

spate

tidy sum

wad

great number

precipice

mountains

ben

crag

high

vicinity of a mountain

pebble

rocky mountain

alp

Alpine

mountainous terrain

barrow

hillock

promontory

range

multitude

artificial mound

chain

coral

cone

pyramid

abyss

chasm

pass

rampart

forest

jungle

vegetation

clause

condition

provision

proviso

qualification

stipulation

term

hilly area

rocky hill

there is a protuberance

backing

blizzard

butte

liner

lining

ridge

nose

mountain range

corniche

limestone pinnacle

knoll

mountainous area

alpine

montane

summit

mountain region

mound

ream

ruck

slag heap

stockpile

threescore

colina

loma

moor

cave

island

underside

grasshopper

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmaʊn.tɪn/

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 Old English beorg and dūn, and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).

Sentences

The mountain is in the John Muir Wilderness Area in the Inyo National Forest .