mountain

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Our pleasure was to drive out into the British possessions, first around the mountain, which is quite a mountain for a villa, though nothing to speak of as a mountain, with several handsome residences on its sides, and a good many not so handsome; but the mountain is a pet of Montreal, and, as I said, quite the thing for a cockney mountain.

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  1. noun A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass, generally steep sides, and a height greater than that of a hill.
  2. noun A large heap: a mountain of laundry.
  3. noun A huge quantity: a mountain of trouble.

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  • On the northern slope of the mountain is the road from Frιjus to Cannes, which leaves the Estιrel at Mandelieu. —  Riviera Towns
  • This mountain was a very active volcano. —  The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
  • I close my lecture with a quotation from the writings of a celebrated mountaineer--`In all cases the man rather than the mountain is at fault There is truth in what you say," observed Lewis, rising, with a yawn Nay, but," returned his friend, seriously, "your mother, who is made very anxious by your reckless expeditions, begged me to impress these truths on you. —  Rivers of Ice
  • And not a mountain is here, but a mere man's heart--already "moved," for he has loved her It is summer again. —  Browning's Heroines
  • Last night my mountain was all pink and silver, and I have seen it purple and rose. —  A Voice in the Wilderness
 

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  1. Middle English mountaine, from Old French montaigne, muntaigne, from Vulgar Latin *montānea, from feminine of *montāneus, of a mountain, from Latin montānus, from mōns, mont-, mountain; see men-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English mountaine, mountein, montain, montaine, muntaine, montaigne, from Old French montaigne, muntaine, French montagne = Provencal montanha, montagna, montayna = Spanish montaña = Portuguese montanha = Italian montagna, from Middle Latin montanea, also montana, a mountain, a mountainous region, from Latin montana, neuter plural, mountainous regions, from montanus, of or belonging to a mountain, mountainous, from mon (t-)s, a mountain: see mount. Mountain is related to mount as fountain is to fount.
 

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