mons
noun
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
The losses trimmed Labor's Com mons majority to 74, down from the comfortable 97 won two years ago.
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
It is, indeed, a "bellus mons" in the sense of commanding a wide and pleasant outlook.
From Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine by William Holden Hutton
"With existing antibiotics, C. difficile sometimes reappears just weeks after treatment," says researcher and lead author Elma Mons.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2026
Their investigation identified a large subsurface structure in the Nyx Mons region, named after the Greek goddess of the night.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 12, 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
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
For the situation of affairs in England I refer you to Mr Rogers, Aid de Camp to Mons. du Coudray.
From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I by Jared Sparks
Take my advice, wait upon M. de St. Pouange, who has the power of doing both good and ill; he is Mons. de Louvois's cousin and favorite.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
Written originally in Latin, by Mons. ***, and now done into English.
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 Hugh Thomson
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
The general feeling of the Church, however, was in favour of the montes.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
The first syllable of this name appears to be the same as of Cambunii montes, in which the second part is probably the word βοῦνος, which in modern Greek still means “a hill.”
From The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race, Vol. 1 of 2 by Karl Otfried Müller
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