mountain, mount
(noun) a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
(noun) (often followed by āofā) a large number or amount or extent; āa batch of lettersā; āa deal of troubleā; āa lot of moneyā; āhe made a mint on the stock marketā; āsee the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photosā; āit must have cost plentyā; āa slew of journalistsā; āa wad of moneyā
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Mountain
A village in North Dakota.
A town in Wisconsin.
(historical, with "the") The Montagnard party in the time of the French Revolution.
Mountain (plural Mountains)
(rail) a steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.
• antimuon
mountain (countable and uncountable, plural mountains)
(countable) 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.
(countable) Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
(attributive) Of, belonging to, relating to, or found on a mountain; like a mountain in size; (of living things) growing or living on a mountain.
(figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
(countable, slang) A woman's large breast.
(cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.
(uncountable) Wine made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
As with the names of rivers and lakes, the names of mountains are typically formed by adding the generic word before or after the unique term. In the case of mountains, when the word precedes the unique term, mount is used: Mount Olympus, Mount Everest, Mount Tai; when the word follows the unique term, mountain is used: Crowfoot Mountain, Blue Mountain, Rugged Mountain. Generally speaking, such names will be adjectives or attributive nouns, but many foreign placenames formed with adjectivesāas China's Huashanāare translated as though they were proper names: Mount Hua instead of Hua Mountain or Flourishing Mountain.
Mountain chains are never named with mount, only with mountains, a translated term, or a pluralized name.
(Terms derived from Germanic roots):
• barrow (obsolete in some senses)
• berg (chiefly South Africa)
• berry (chiefly dialectal)
• pike (chiefly Northern England)
(Of the sense āan elevation of landā):
• Battle Mountain
• folded mountain
• Iron Mountain
• table mountain
• volcano
(Of the sense āan elevation of landā):
• mountainside
• mountainslope
• mountaintop
• peak
(Of the sense āan elevation of landā):
• Blue Mountains
• mountain chain
• mountain range
• antimuon
Source: Wiktionary
Moun"tain, n. Etym: [OE. mountaine, montaine, F. montagne, LL. montanea, montania, fr. L. mons, montis, a mountain; cf. montanus belonging to a mountain. See 1st Mount.]
1. A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.
2. pl.
Definition: A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.
3. A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk. I should have been a mountain of mummy. Shak. The Mountain (La montagne) (French Hist.), a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of seats.
Moun"tain, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great. The high, the mountain majesty of worth. Byron. Mountain anthelope (Zoƶl.), the goral.
– Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the P. aucuparia, or rowan tree.
– Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of mountains.
– Mountain beaver (Zoƶl.), the sewellel.
– Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
– Mountain cat (Zoƶl.), the catamount. See Catamount.
– Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mountain ranges, generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.
– Mountain cock (Zoƶl.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie.
– Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture.
– Mountain crystal. See under Crystal.
– Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus Simaruba (S. amarga) growing in the West Indies, which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes used in medicine.
– Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] -- Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Bauhinia variegata) of the East and West Indies; -- so called because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and in tanning.
– Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus.
– Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under Fumitory.
– Mountain goat. (Zoƶl.) See Mazama.
– Mountain green. (Min.) (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper. (b) See Green earth, under Green, a.
– Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub (Nemopanthes Canadensis), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries. It is found in the Northern United States.
– Mountain laurel (Bot.), an American shrub (Kalmia latifolia) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is poisonous. Called also American laurel, ivy bush, and calico bush. See Kalmia.
– Mountain leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling leather in its texture.
– Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium (T. Alpinum).
– Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine limestone strata below the coal measures, and above the old red standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology.
– Mountain linnet (Zoƶl.), the twite.
– Mountain magpie. (Zoƶl.) (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker. (b) The European gray shrike.
– Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany.
– Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence.
– Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime.
– Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint.
– Mountain ousel (Zoƶl.), the ring ousel; -- called also mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel.
– Mountain pride, or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate leaves.
– Mountain quail (Zoƶl.), the plumed partridge (Oreortyx pictus) of California. It has two long, slender, plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.
– Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction.
– Mountain rice. (Bot.) (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation, in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States. (b) An American genus of grasses (Oryzopsis).
– Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe (Rosa alpina).
– Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.
– Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant (Oxyria digyna with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. Gray.
– Mountain sparrow (Zoƶl.), the European tree sparrow.
– Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach.
– Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant (Arnica montana) of Europe; called also leopard's bane.
– Mountain witch (Zoƶl.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the genus Geotrygon.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
30 January 2025
(noun) a severe dermatitis of herbivorous domestic animals attributable to photosensitivity from eating Saint Johnās wort
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
