Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Belgium near the French border southwest of Brussels. Founded on the site of a Roman camp, it was an important cloth market in the 1300s.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the mons Veneris.
- noun An abbreviation of the French Monsieur.
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- proper noun Capital city of the
province ofHainaut ,Belgium . - proper noun planetology A
mountain . - proper noun A
diminutive of the femalegiven name Monica - proper noun A
diminutive of the malegiven name Montgomery
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- noun a mound of fatty tissue covering the pubic area in women
Etymologies
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Examples
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As I recall, Olympus Mons is much higher than Everest.
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Our lead character, Victor Mons, is a painter whose most recent collection is titled Monstruary: “a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.”
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Our lead character, Victor Mons, is a painter whose most recent collection is titled Monstruary: “a menagerie of personal demons summoned from the disturbing and often erotic images of his past.”
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The only one of his senior officials who I have actually met is the incoming National Security Adviser, Jim Jones, who I went to see once at SHAPE in Mons when he was SACEUR (sorry for the mystifying abbreviations but spelling them out in full is tedious).
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One of these presbyters, Novatus, selected Felicissimus as deacon of his church in the district called Mons, and because of the importance of the office of deacon in the African Church,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In the normal position nothing is visible but the peculiarly human cushion of fat picturesquely termed the Mons Veneris
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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The place was called Mons Sacer, or the Sacred Hill, forever after, and the laws by which the sanctity of the tribunitian office was secured were called the _Leges Sacratæ_.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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The very name Mons Grampus implies the existence of some conspicuous eminence in the near neighbourhood.
Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883
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Bounded on the north by the range of hills which Strabo calls Mons Masius, and on the east by the waterless upland which lies directly west of the middle Tigris, it comprises within it all the numerous affluents of the Khabour and Bilik, and is thus better supplied with water than almost any country in these regions.
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As the Senate, although it frequently met, came to no decision on this matter, the plebeians suddenly assembled in a body, left the city, and established themselves on what was afterwards called the Mons Sacer, or Sacred Hill, near the river Anio.
Plutarch's Lives, Volume I 46-120? Plutarch 1839
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