mons
noun
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
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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
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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
By a vote of 163 to 78 in the House of Com mons, and 38 to 23 in the Senate, Canada's Parliament approved what Liberal Prime Minister Lester Pearson calls a flag for all Canadians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Inside, the House of Com mons was being told that Canada was in for a cold, tough winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if by the "bellus mons" we were to understand a fair natural hill, we should be led astray.
From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by William Holden Hutton
We reach Mons and the impressive Grand-Place, where several young people, recognising him from his Instagram account, make a beeline for him.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
"Those bacteria actually protect against C. difficile," says Mons.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 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
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
I do not believe I will get to see Olympus Mons on this mission, but I am not quite sure.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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
On arriving at Port Royal, at Martinique, Mons. de Blenac, the governor, who was then dying, made him stay at his house, and relate every day his adventure with the English vessel.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume III (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
Written originally in Latin, by Mons. ***, and now done into English.
"He confirms every thing Mons. de Tiernay tells us of the practicable nature of these paths; his fellows have tracked them at all hours, and neither want guidance nor direction to go."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various
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
Such a vaunt may be considered to savour of the parturiunt montes apothegm, but the reader may confidently rest assured that whatever shortcomings he may detect they are not the result of negligence.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
"Parturiunt montes" is an easy verdict to pronounce; it remains to be proved whether in this case it is a just one to render.
From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by William Reed Huntington
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
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