Mountain

See also: mountain

English

Etymology

From mountain.

Proper noun

Mountain (countable and uncountable, plural Mountains)

1. A placename
   1. A village in North Dakota, United States.
   2. A town in Wisconsin, United States.
   3. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Mountain Township.
   4. The Rural Municipality of Mountain, a rural municipality in western Manitoba, Canada.
   5. A hamlet near Queensbury, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0930).
   6. (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”)
• Montano (“Italian”)
• Montaño (“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.

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