Montclair

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Montclair

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From French mont (“mountain”) + clair (“clear”).

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  1. A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
  2. A township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said.
  3. A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States. That was where he grew up […] near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like P

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@misc{montclair_2026,
  title = {Montclair},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/montclair},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}