mons
noun
an area of the body that is higher than neighboring areas.
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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
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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
Inside, the House of Com mons was being told that Canada was in for a cold, tough winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
"But if ser mons are not drawn directly from the Bible," he says firmly, they're "just speechmaking."
From Time Magazine Archive
I livet in my own town only sree mons.
From Boyhood by Hogarth, C. J.
Mons hopes funding will become available so the research can move forward.
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
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
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
A. Oh, Mons. de Bevannes do not let that deter you, if you meant what you said the evening Mons.
From The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet by Edwards, Pierrepont
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
I feel happy in being able, while paying homage to truth, to destroy the effect of the lying stories which have been told respecting the last moments of Mons. de Voltaire.
From Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works by Foote, G. W. (George William)
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
He speaks of four montes, which had castles.
From Notes and Queries, Number 57, November 30, 1850 by Various
Caesar. ad montes, i.e. the rocky hills through which the retreating Pompeians had to pass before they could reach the Ebro valley.
From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund
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)
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