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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southwest Belgium near the French border southwest of Brussels. Founded on the site of a Roman camp, it was an important cloth market in the 1300s.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of the French Monsieur.
  • noun In anatomy, the mons Veneris.

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  • proper noun Capital city of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
  • proper noun A diminutive of the female given name Monica
  • proper noun A diminutive of the male given name Montgomery
  • proper noun planetology A mountain.

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  • noun a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women

Etymologies

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Latin mōns ("mountain")

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