Mount Fuji
- proper noun
- /maʊnt ˈfuːdʒi/
:
Monte Fuji
- Many artists have depicted Mount Fuji in their work, highlighting its beauty and cultural significance.
Examples
-
Mount Fuji is a volcano rich in rare earth elements.
-
This city, which has behind it the sacred mountain, Mount Fuji, and has a bay facing the Pacific Ocean, is in a quiet place.
-
If you look down from Mount Fuji, the forest looks like an ocean.
-
Mount Fuji is very beautiful and important to history.
-
On a clear night, the twinkling complexity can be seen from as far away as the summit of Mount Fuji.
Fiction book (1996) -
Like cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji, she is one of the best-known symbols of Japan as a nation (Moeran and Skov 1997:195).
Academic text (1999) -
The view of Mount Fuji from the lake is simply stunning.
-
During winter, the snow-capped summit of Mount Fuji is a breathtaking sight against the clear blue sky.
Synonyms
16
4.9
A tall, snow-capped volcano in Japan and the country's highest mountain that climbers and pilgrims visit
1
7.4
A tall mountain in Japan with a snow covered peak that is the country's highest and considered sacred
An extinct volcano in central Honshu that is Japan's highest mountain with a snow covered cone important in Japanese culture
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'Mount' denotes a mountain and 'Fuji' is the proper name, so together they denote the mountain called Fuji. This place-name formation is cross-linguistically common and non-idiomatic, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will understand the meaning.
Etymology
The name Mount Fuji may come from an old Japanese idea where Fuji was written as 'not two', meaning 'without equal'. People used that name because the mountain stands alone and is Japan's highest and most famous peak, so the name shows how special it is.