an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
1615–25; < New Latin; Latin mōns mountain, hill; see mount 2
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Although many of the characters, including the physicians, in “Man’s 4th Best Hospital” are women, and, although Bergman has gotten beyond the trope of nurse as dumb mons, his depiction of gender is still old-fashioned.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 25, 2019
The mountain ranges and individual mountains are labeled with their Latin names, "montes" for mountain ranges and "mons" for individual mountains.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2013
An early rule of the order was "designed to train every man for what he can do best" and to make him ready for "any sum mons."
From Time Magazine Archive
"But if ser mons are not drawn directly from the Bible," he says firmly, they're "just speechmaking."
From Time Magazine Archive
Ex eo fonte—fons, masculine, as I remember; fons and mons and pons, and one other.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
"That happens when you don't completely kill the bacteria but merely irritate them," Mons says.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
China collected the rocks on its Chang'e 5 space mission in 2020 when it landed on a volcanic area called Mons Rümker.
From BBC ● May 8, 2025
Eléonore Vercurysse and Sylvain Gabriele from the University of Mons in Belgium observed this phenomenon while investigating keratocytes and their wound-healing features within different geometrical patterns.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 19, 2024
The 87-year-old Pontiff, who was taken to a Roman hospital on Wednesday for diagnostic testing after having to cancel some public audiences, handed his speech to his aide, Mons.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 1, 2024
One mountain, a volcano called Olympus Mons, is fifteen miles high and three hundred miles across.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
In 1903 the Nobel prize for physical science was awarded, half to Mons. and Mme.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 28, 2011
"A friend of my brother's came home that way from Mons. It seemed like a hell of a joke. Chaps never know anything, do they?"
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
A. Oh, Mons. de Bevannes do not let that deter you, if you meant what you said the evening Mons.
From The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet by Edwards, Pierrepont
Take my advice, wait upon M. de St. Pouange, who has the power of doing both good and ill; he is Mons. de Louvois's cousin and favorite.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
I feel happy in being able, while paying homage to truth, to destroy the effect of the lying stories which have been told respecting the last moments of Mons. de Voltaire.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)
The mountain ranges and individual mountains are labeled with their Latin names, "montes" for mountain ranges and "mons" for individual mountains.
From Scientific American ● May 17, 2013
It is odd therefore, that the one apposite passage which recurred to me in its entirety was in hexameters and pentameters: Me miserum, quanti montes volvuntur aquarum!
From Dead Men Tell No Tales by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
The general feeling of the Church, however, was in favour of the montes.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George
Mors super virides montes," and ten curious lines:— "Vnder thy feate interrd is here A native born in Oxfordsheere, First, Life and Learning Oxford gaue; Surry to him his death, his graue.
From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh
The sprightly company, which had taken for its motto "Sic juvat transcendere montes," looked and worshiped.
From Audrey by Johnston, Mary
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