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
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
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
Montmartre.—By some this name is derived from mons martis; by others from mons martyrum.
From Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
Mons and her colleagues studied how EVG7 affects C. difficile infections in mice.
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
China collected the rocks on its Chang'e 5 space mission in 2020 when it landed on a volcanic area called Mons Rümker.
From BBC ● May 8, 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 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
She also relates that when the royal forces threatened Orleans, the inhabitants sent to the duke for succour, and he sent the Count de Fiesque and Mons. de Grammont, who appeased their fears.
From Notes and Queries, Number 233, April 15, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various
Since I have called your attention to the expression Mons., and reminded you of its proper meaning, never send a letter to a Frenchman with the envelope addressed as Mons.
From John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced by O'Rell, Max
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
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 Thomson, Hugh
Graven upon them were the Latin words, Sic juvat transcendere montes which mean, "Thus it is a pleasure to cross the mountains."
From This Country of Ours by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)
The general feeling of the Church, however, was in favour of the montes.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by O'Brien, George
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 Turner, Frederick Jackson
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