mountain

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• Something very large in size or quantity; a huge amount; a great heap.
• A difficult task or challenge.
• Wine from Malaga made from grapes that grow on a mountain.
• A woman's large breast.
• The twenty-first Lenormand card.

Origin

• From Middle English mountayne, mountain, montaigne, from Anglo-Norman muntaine, muntaigne, from Old French montaigne, from Vulgar Latin *montānea, feminine of *montāneus, alteration of Latin montānus, from mōns, from Proto-Indo-European *monti (compare Welsh mynydd ("mountain"), Albanian mat ("bank, shore"), Avestan 𐬨𐬀𐬙𐬌), from *men-. Displaced native Middle English berwe, bergh, from Old English beorg (whence English barrow); and partially displaced non-native Old English munt, from Latin mōns (whence English mount).