mons
noun
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
mons
1 American
[monz]
/ mɒnz /
noun
Anatomy.
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montes
plural
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an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
Mons
2
American
[mawn s]
/ mɔ̃s /
noun
Mons.
3
American
abbreviation
Mons
British
/ mɔ̃s /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mons
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 in the House of Com mons, the reaction to Wilson is generally one of uneasy suspicion, and he is frequently accused of being "slippery."
From Time Magazine Archive
Six year ant seven mons livet I in town wis ze Mister Shoemaker, ant he loaft me.
From Boyhood by C. J. Hogarth
As we stand in a beautiful square, the famous Belfry of Mons looming over us, I ask Karl if he ever pauses to truly soak up the sights.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
When the surgeon's case came to light, "it provided them with the beginning of an explanation," Ms Mons said.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 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 day, when humans colonize Mars, there will be a ticket office to see Olympus Mons.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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 Pierrepont Edwards
Well gentlemen," replied the Huron, "I am going to Versailles to receive the recompense due to my services; I will speak to Mons. de Louvois.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
It was a female, and though not exactly of the same species, much resembled the remarkable animal which Mons. de Buffon hath described by the name of phalanger.
From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis
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
The sprightly company, which had taken for its motto "Sic juvat transcendere montes," looked and worshiped.
From Audrey by Mary Johnston
Sic juvat transcendere montes was the motto of these Knights of the Golden Horse Shoe, as the governor dubbed them.
From The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner
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 E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
Caesar. ad montes, i.e. the rocky hills through which the retreating Pompeians had to pass before they could reach the Ebro valley.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce
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