monadnock

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A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominately 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.

{i} high isolated mountain (or cliff) located in the middle of a flat area
Monadnock Mount
high mountain peak in the state of New Hampshire (USA)
monadnock

    Hyphenation

    mo·nad·nock

    Turkish pronunciation

    mänädnäk

    Synonyms

    inselberg

    Pronunciation

    /ˌmäˈnadnäk/ /ˌmɑːˈnædnɑːk/

    Etymology

    () Algonquian, probably from Abenaki menonadenak ("smooth mountain") or menadena ("isolated mountain").
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