PRONUNCIATION:(muh-NAD-nok)
MEANING:noun: An isolated hill or mountain that, having resisted erosion, rises above a plain.
ETYMOLOGY:After Mount Monadnock, a peak in New Hampshire, whose name in Algonquian means isolated mountain. Also see peneplain.
USAGE:"Almost every Concord street has one: a household that leaves a monadnock of trash bags beside the road each week."Pay-to-throw is Right Way For Concord to Go; Concord Monitor (New Hampshire); Feb 1, 2007.
From Anu Garg's wonderful Word A Day
MEANING:noun: An isolated hill or mountain that, having resisted erosion, rises above a plain.
ETYMOLOGY:After Mount Monadnock, a peak in New Hampshire, whose name in Algonquian means isolated mountain. Also see peneplain.
USAGE:"Almost every Concord street has one: a household that leaves a monadnock of trash bags beside the road each week."Pay-to-throw is Right Way For Concord to Go; Concord Monitor (New Hampshire); Feb 1, 2007.
From Anu Garg's wonderful Word A Day
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