Monadnock meaning

mə-nădnŏk
A mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area.
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A mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area.
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(geol.) An isolated rocky hill or mountain rising above a peneplain in an area with a temperate climate.
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A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominately flat plain.
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Origin of monadnock

  • After Mount Monadnock

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • 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").

    From Wiktionary

Monadnock Sentence Examples

  • "It's obvious he's not going to address the issue," Betsy grumbled as we spent our Saturday climbing nearby Mount Monadnock.

  • Monadnock (in New Hampshire, nearN.E.Massachusetts), the Blue Hills near Boston, Greylock, in the north-west, and Wachusett in the centre, are the most commanding remnant-summits (known generically as " Monadnocks ") of the original mountain system.

  • Extending from Mount Monadnock in Cheshire, the S.W.

  • The type of this class of forms is Mt Monadnock in south-western New Hampshire, a fine example of an isolated residual mass rising from an upland some 1500 ft.

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