monadnock

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monadnock

/məˈnædˌnɒk/

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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”).

noun monadnocks

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.
Similar: inselberg

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@misc{monadnock_2026,
  title = {monadnock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/monadnock},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}