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Montgomery

Montgomery

73 3.2
The capital city of Alabama on the Mobile River in the southern United States
  • proper noun
  • /mɒnˈɡʌməri/
: Montgomery
  • And then that started the Montgomery, AL bus boycott, which essentially kicked off the modern day civil rights movement.
  • Montgomery, Alabama
  • Montgomery, Ala.
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

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Examples

  • 1955: Thousands of African-Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, boycott buses to protest segregation.

    Academic text (2011)

  • There I was in Montgomery, Alabama.

    Tyler Perry's A Madea Homecoming (2022)

  • One of my favorite places in the world is Montgomery, AL.

  • And they might work there for, you know, six months and then go back home to Montgomery just to pick a place.

  • I have a good friend who lives here in Montgomery.

    The Night Listener (2006)

  • What about the Montgomery Bus Boycott?

    Walkout (2006)

  • They hail from the Atmore area, located in Montgomery, Alabama.

    The Baytown Outlaws (2012)

  • There was no ceremony about our release, we were simply told that the hour of our deliverance had come, and were marched up to the railroad to await the train to Montgomery.

    Remember the Sultana (2015)

  • One of my favorite places in the world is Montgomery, AL.

  • An ideal place to stay while exploring the capital, Montgomery has some worthy attractions of its own.

Compounds

1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
9.9

A British general who led troops to victory in North Africa and led troops in the Normandy invasion

Surface Forms

Montgomery main

Etymology

The word Montgomery is an old family name made of mont meaning 'hill', like in mountain, and the name Gomeric, so it originally meant 'Gomeric's hill'. The city Montgomery in Alabama was named after General Richard Montgomery, so the place name comes from a person's name that once meant 'Gomeric's hill'.