monadnock

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
22
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/məˈnædˌnɒk/

Definition of monadnock

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.
    “Eastward from the White Mountains, the open sea of the upland country comes right to the monadnock shore, with hardly an outlying island; southward the upland is covered for miles by an archipelago of monadnock groups and peaks.”

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Etymology

From the name of Mount Monadnock in New England, which derives from an Abenaki word, perhaps menonadenak, menonadenek (“smooth mountain”) or menadenak, menadenek (“isolated mountain”), from aden (“mountain”).

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