Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical geography, an isolated hill or mountain rising over a peneplain, and surviving because of the superior resistance of its rocks or of its distance from the larger rivers; a residual hill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hill or
mountain standingisolated above a predominately flat plain.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I so much need help figuring out what to do with "monadnock" … dbadass Says:
Think Progress 2009
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It's named after a monadnock in North Carolina, Pilot Mountain.
there's more dark meat on a hamster kylecassidy 2009
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The lowland of the Sjaunja and Muddus, to the east consist of a monadnock plain, that is to say a wide plain with isolated low, conical hills, covered by taiga vegetation and lakes.
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Among its low gentle heights there rises an occasional little monadnock like Chapel Hill, where the University of North Carolina lies on a rugged eminence which strikingly recalls New England.
The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911
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"It is plain," he said, "that the basalt monadnock on which we stand is a carboniferous upthrust of metamorphosed schists, shales and conglomerate, probably Mesozoic or at least early Silurian."
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Pikes Peak stands sentinel-like seventy-five miles east of the range, a gigantic monadnock, remainder and reminder of a former range long ages worn away.
The Book of the National Parks Robert Sterling Yard 1903
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Ed said there's another monadnock north of Sacramento.
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Pilot Mountain, a quartzite monadnock rising to a peak 2,421 feet (738 m) above sea level, is one of the most distinctive natural features in the state of North
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It is a special kind of rare mountain called a monadnock.
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He writes on a peneplain from which his monadnock rises.
dbqp: visualizing poetics Geof Huth 2008
mollusque commented on the word monadnock
A hill of resistant rock surmounting a peneplain.
December 11, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word monadnock
Hmm. That explains Mount Monadnock State Park...
September 23, 2008
bilby commented on the word monadnock
Also known as an inselberg.
January 23, 2009
sionnach commented on the word monadnock
Even though I know this term refers to a kind of topographical feature, why do I always think of mad monks when I see it?
January 23, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word monadnock
I once spent a fascinating three hours scouring Google Earth for monadnocks -- most of them look spectacular with the 3D terrain feature turned on.
January 24, 2009
sionnach commented on the word monadnock
Who are all these people cluttering up the image search results? I mean, I'm sure they're lovely human beings, but - more monadnock, less human interference, please!
January 24, 2009
super-beanie commented on the word monadnock
I always think of the entire state of New Hampshire seeing this word. Strong word.
March 3, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word monadnock
Possible having something to do with the fearsome monads?!
March 3, 2010