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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. A mountainous plateau of south-central France. It includes the Cévennes and the Auvergne Mountains, which rise to the plateau's highest point, 1,887.3 m (6,188 ft).

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  1. n. An elevated area of south-central France.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a mountainous plateau in southern France that covers almost one sixth of the country

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  • “I’m not really concerned here with Mestorino or Landru or with that lawyer in the Massif Central who exterminated his victims by plunging them into a bath full of quicklime.”

    Maigret's Memoirs

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  1. massif
  1. plateau
  1. table-land

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