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
Everyone in Ottawa's House of Com mons knew roughly what to expect when the Prime Minister rose for his announcement.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
A fund raised by such means was generally called a mons or heap.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
Mons hopes funding will become available so the research can move forward.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
"With existing antibiotics, C. difficile sometimes reappears just weeks after treatment," says researcher and lead author Elma Mons.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
Olivia Mons of the France Victimes association spoke to many of the alleged victims and said several only had blurry recollections of events which they were never able to "find the words to explain".
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
Olympus Mons is the highest peak on Mars.
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
An hour afterwards our café-au-lait entered, and with it the principal gaoler, or, as he was called, Mons. le Gouverneur.
From A Sailor of King George by A. Beckford Bevan
Written originally in Latin, by Mons. ***, and now done into English.
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 G. W. (George William) Foote
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
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 Hugh Thomson
"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
This was a great disappointment to the Earl of Oxford and his party, who were reminded, much oftener than they found agreeable, of the "Parturiunt montes, nascitur ridiculus mus."
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 by John Rudd
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