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
Inside, the House of Com mons was being told that Canada was in for a cold, tough winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Ex eo fonte—fons, masculine, as I remember; fons and mons and pons, and one other.
From Atlantic Classics by Various
Mons and her colleagues studied how EVG7 affects C. difficile infections in mice.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
"If a patient relapses and needs another hospital admission, that's costly too," Mons points out.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
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
Molten basalt is runnier than recycled magma and spreads out into broad “shield” volcanoes like Mars’s Olympus Mons.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 12, 2023
I placed a fingertip in the same spot on my own forehead and felt the scabbed-over ruins of Olympus Mons, which is what I had decided to name the remains of my pimple.
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
"So, Mons. de Bossuet," said La Valli�re, as he handed her to her carriage—"so, then, his Majesty has exiled me, 'par la peur du diable.'"
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
The first labors of Mons. de Ram were devoted to meet this want, by publishing several very useful books in Flemish.
From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.
Then, Mons. le Premier, said the king, by———we’ll go to war with ’em.
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence
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 Belcher, Edward, Sir
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