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mount

223 3.4
A large hill or mountain that rises above land
  • noun
  • /maʊnt/
: montaña
  • The hikers reached the summit of Mount Everest after a challenging climb.

They chose the Temple Mount, not the Christian sites.

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Examples

  • Well, today's gospel reading from Jesus' Sermon on the Mount gives us a sort of battle plan.

    Blog text (25)
  • ALL NATURAL COCOA BEANS FROM THE UPPER SLOPES OF MOUNT NICARAGUA.

  • Here... in the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided.

  • " Tell me, what the hell happened on the Mount? "

    Fiction book (1991)
  • It's the top of mount Evans.

  • This is a sat-nav map Of mount Lincoln.

  • Elijah fled to the mount of God.

  • The Jews received another site on the mount for a synagogue in compensation for the expropriated building.

    Academic text (2013)
  • I will sit enthroned on this mount of assembly... on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain, and it has come to pass.

  • It came to pass the philistines sent word to Saul, challenging Israel to battle at mount gilboa.

Synonyms

mountain
vsmount
∞ 1.0

A very high area of land with steep sides and a top

describes a large land mass rising above surroundings but possibly less steep

Antonyms

531 1.0

A low area of land between hills or mountains often with a river running through it

depression
  • Specialized
6 5.3

A low area of land that forms a hollow

Compounds

27 2.3

The highest mountain in the world on the border between Nepal and China, rising about 8,848 meters

A group of four people seen as the most important in a field

Mount Olympus
  • Literature
11 4.6

The highest mountain in Greece that ancient Greeks thought was the home of the Greek gods

Sermon on the Mount
  • Literature
7 6.2

A long talk by Jesus that gives key moral teachings in the Bible books Matthew and Luke

The highest mountain in Africa, in northeastern Tanzania, that rises to 5,895 meters

A volcano near Naples in southern Italy famous for its AD 79 eruption that buried Pompeii and Herculaneum

A tall mountain in south-central Alaska that is the highest peak in North America

3 4.1

A mountain in southern Sinai that people believe is where Moses received the Ten Commandments

2 2.2

A sleeping volcano in central Honshu, Japan, that is the country's highest peak

An active volcano in western Washington known for its 1980 eruption

2 6.3

A mountain ridge by the Mediterranean Sea in northern Israel with important biblical history

1 7.3

A hill in Jerusalem with ancient sacred sites often used to mean the city

1 7.8

A piece of land in the northeast of Greece with many Greek Orthodox monasteries

A national park in Washington state with a high volcano, glaciers, and mountain lakes

A mountain in South Dakota with the carved faces of four US presidents

A modern speech or document treated as a complete moral guide

Mount Parnassus
  • Literature
1 8.2

A mountain in central Greece linked with poetry, music and artistic inspiration

1 3.5

A high mountain in southwest Washington in the Cascade Range

Mount Tacoma
  • Archaic
1 7.9

An old name for Mount Rainier, a high mountain in Washington State

Mount Pisgah
  • Literature
1 8.5

A mountain in Jordan where Moses saw the Promised Land, also used as the name for hills and parks

The highest mountain in Mexico, an inactive volcano between Mexico City and Veracruz

A nickname for the United States state South Dakota

Former official name of Tajikistan's highest peak, now called Ismoil Somoni Peak

Mount Cook lily
  • New Zealand
8.6

A New Zealand plant with large white flowers that comes back each year in mountains

The second highest mountain in the world on the border of Pakistan and China, called K2

Mount Rainier
  • Specialized
7.2

A system that lets computers write files to writable CDs in the background and fix bad parts on the disc

A Roman Catholic religious group that dates from the 1100s and is devoted to the Virgin Mary and prayer

How Big

massif
2 9.1
mountain
∞ 1.0
mount
223 3.4
hill
852 1.0
mound
41 1.7

Surface Forms

mount singular
mounts plural

Etymology

Mount meaning a large hill comes from Latin mons which means 'hill' or 'mountain', the same root as in mountain. That's why a 'mount' is a high piece of land above the area around it.