Mountain

See also: mountain

English

Etymology

From mountain.

Proper noun

Mountain (countable and uncountable, plural Mountains)

1. A placename:
   1. A minor city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States.
   2. An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States, originally named Mole Hill.
   3. A town and census-designated place therein, in Oconto County, Wisconsin, United States.
   4. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Mountain Township.
   5. A rural municipality in western Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Mountain.
   6. A hamlet near Queensbury, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0930).
   7. (historical, obsolete) A huge province in the Cordilleras composed of the subprovinces of Apayao, Amburayan, Benguet, Ifugao, Kalinga, and Lepanto-Bontoc.

      Synonym: Mountain Province

2. (countable) A surname.
3. (historical, with "the") The Montagnard party in the time of the French Revolution.

See also

surname

• Montaigne
• Montano

• Montaigne (“French”) (French)
• Montano (“Italian”) (Italian)
• Montaño (“Spanish”) (Spanish)

Noun

Mountain (plural Mountains)

1. (rail transport) A steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.
   • 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 106:

     Western Pacific wisely devoted its design energies to the articulateds which produced most of its gross, left the 4-6-0's that came with the road plus a few secondhand Florida East Coast Mountains for its sparse passenger service.

Anagrams

• antimuon