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
"But if ser mons are not drawn directly from the Bible," he says firmly, they're "just speechmaking."
From Time Magazine Archive
He then assured Com mons, while Brown sat in a sullen, cross-armed slouch, that he had backing "as a whole" against the arms sales.
From Time Magazine Archive
Un petit rouge livere, en le quel sount contenuz mons diverses choses.
From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Frederick Somner Merryweather
As we stand in a beautiful square, the famous Belfry of Mons looming over us, I ask Karl if he ever pauses to truly soak up the sights.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 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
One mountain, a volcano called Olympus Mons, is fifteen miles high and three hundred miles across.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
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
Olivencrants the Swedish Ambassador, was then at his House, which gives me a scruple, that the visit might be meant to him, rather than to Mons. de Cros.
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 Laurence Sterne
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 E. Rameur
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
This attack on Charleston to some extent justifies: parturiunt montes, etc.
From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
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
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 H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
As they rode on they found the country dotted over with quintas and country-houses, here called montes, from being generally seated on hills.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Sue Petigru Bowen
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