Montagnard
Americannoun
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Montagnards,
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Montagnard
plural
noun
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a member of a hill people living on the border between Vietnam, Laos, and NE Cambodia
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a member of a North American Indian people living in the N Rocky Mountains
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Montagnard
1835–45; < French: literally, mountaineer. See mountain, -ard
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Earlier in the year Thailand also sent a Vietnamese Montagnard activist back to Vietnam.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2025
The three Green Berets and nine Montagnard tribesmen ended up at the doorstep of a large enemy headquarters, which may have held hundreds of soldiers.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2020
Or civilian and official Mike Benge, from Heppner, Ore., an expert on Montagnard affairs, who disappeared into Viet Cong captivity in the Central Highlands.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
BANGKOK, Thailand — During the Vietnam War, Kanh Kpa’s indigenous Montagnard relatives fought alongside US Army Special Forces in Vietnam’s remote Central Highlands, where the mostly Christian tribesmen gained a reputation as fierce and loyal allies.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2015
Maybe up in one of the high mountain villes, maybe with the Montagnard tribes.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Both were Montagnards, members of the Revolution’s most ardent faction; Corday, from the rival Girondins, gained entry to Marat’s bathroom by claiming to have information on Girondin fugitives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
Montagnards -- the collective name for various tribes in the Central Highlands -- sided with the US-backed south during Vietnam's decades-long war.
From Barron's ● Dec. 1, 2025
He served as a medic in Vietnam and helped train a large group of indigenous Montagnards to fight with the American and South Vietnamese forces.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2017
But after the war, the ethnic and religious minority Montagnards, or “mountain people,” long at odds with the Vietnamese government, paid a steep price.
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2015
On the other hand, the Montagnards, who had thought themselves lost, were as intoxicated with joy and mad audacity as though the elections had assured them a majority in the new Assembly.
From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Alexis de Tocqueville
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