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creek
English
Alternative forms
- crick (dialectical US)
- crik (eye dialect)
Etymology
From Middle English cr?ke, from Old Norse kriki. Early British colonists of Australia and the Americas used the term in the usual British way, to name inlets; as settlements followed the inlets upstream and inland, the names were retained and creek was reinterpreted as a general term for a small waterway.. Compare Dutch kreek, and French crique, both from the same source.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: kr?k IPA(key): /k?i?k/
- (US) IPA(key): /k?ik/, (Appalachia) /k??k/
- Rhymes: -i?k, -?k
- Homophones: creak, crick
Noun
creek (plural creeks)
- (Britain) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
- (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized waterbodies.
- Any turn or winding.
Synonyms
- beck, brook, burn, stream
- (regional US terms:) run (Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia), brook (New England), branch (Southern US), bayou (Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Southeastern Texas)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Broome Pearling Lugger Pidgin: kriki
- Sranan Tongo: kriki
Translations
References
Anagrams
- ecker
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mountain
English
Etymology
From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Old French montaigne, from Vulgar Latin *mont?nea, feminine of *mont?neus (“mountainous”), alteration of Latin mont?nus, from m?ns (“mountain”), from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd (“mountain”), Albanian mat (“bank, shore”), Avestan ????????????????? (mati, “promontory”)), from *men- (“to project, stick out”). Displaced native Middle English berwe, bergh, from Old English beorg (whence English barrow); and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin m?ns (whence English mount).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ma?nt?n/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ma?nt?n/, /?ma?ntn?/ [?mã???(n)?n?], [?mæ????(n)?n?]
- Rhymes: -a?nt?n, -a?nt?n
Noun
mountain (countable and uncountable, plural mountains)
- (countable) An elevation of land of considerable dimensions rising more or less abruptly, forming a conspicuous figure in the landscape, usually having a small extent of surface at its summit. [from 12th c.]
- Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
- We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains.
- (countable) Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap. [from 15th c.]
- He was a real mountain of a man, standing seven feet tall.
- There's still a mountain of work to do.
- (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
- (uncountable, now historical) Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain. [from 18th c.]
- 1785-1789, James Boswell, The English Experiment (diaries)
- Called on Courtenay, with whom I walked to Hampstead Heath, and got into excellent spirits, enjoying fine fresh air; then dined with him tête-a-tête on mutton broth and mackerel and drank mountain and old port moderately.
- 1785-1789, James Boswell, The English Experiment (diaries)
- (countable, slang) A woman's large breast.
- (cartomancy) The twenty-first Lenormand card.
Usage notes
As with the names of rivers and lakes, the names of mountains are typically formed by adding the generic word before or after the unique term. In the case of mountains, when the word precedes the unique term, mount is used: Mount Olympus, Mount Everest, Mount Tai; when the word follows the unique term, mountain is used: Crowfoot Mountain, Blue Mountain, Rugged Mountain. Generally speaking, such names will be adjectives or attributive nouns, but many foreign placenames formed with adjectives—as China's Huashan—are translated as though they were proper names: Mount Hua instead of Hua Mountain or Flourishing Mountain.
Mountain chains are never named with mount, only with mountains, a translated term, or a pluralized name.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Meronyms
Holonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- Category:Mountains
Further reading
- mountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mountain in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
References
- mountain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- mountain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- antimuon
Middle English
Noun
mountain
- Alternative form of mountayne
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