monadnock

American  

[muh-nad-nok] / məˈnæd nɒk /

noun

1. Physical Geography. a residual hill or mountain standing well above the surface of a surrounding peneplain.

2. (initial capital letter) Mount, a mountain peak in SW New Hampshire. 3,186 feet (971 meters).

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monadnock British  

/ məˈnædnɒk /

noun

1. a residual hill that consists of hard rock in an otherwise eroded area

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monadnock Scientific  

/ mə-năd′nŏk′ /

1. A mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area.

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Etymology

Origin of monadnock

1735–45, after ( Grand ) Monadnock (earlier name of Mount Monadnock) < a S New England Algonquian name, literally, isolated mountain

Example Sentences

It’s etched on the side of a 280-some-million-year-old monadnock: Stone Mountain, seven miles around at the base and covering 1,000 acres.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2020

He was also, when there were such things as isolationists, a veritable monadnock.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among its low gentle heights there rises an occasional little monadnock like Chapel Hill, where the University of North Carolina lies on a rugged eminence which strikingly recalls New England.

From The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America by Huntington, Ellsworth

Pikes Peak stands sentinel-like seventy-five miles east of the range, a gigantic monadnock, remainder and reminder of a former range long ages worn away.

From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling

"It is plain," he said, "that the basalt monadnock on which we stand is a carboniferous upthrust of metamorphosed schists, shales and conglomerate, probably Mesozoic or at least early Silurian."

From The Cruise of the Kawa by Chappell, George S. (George Shepard)