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monadnock
n. A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominately flat plain.
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Monadnock (ACM-14)
Monadnock (disambiguation)
Monadnock may refer to:
A geologic term
- Monadnock or "inselberg", a generic term for isolated mountain
Names of summits
- Mount Monadnock, a well-known summit in southwestern New Hampshire, United States, located in the town of Jaffrey
- Monadnock Mountain (Vermont), a summit in Lemington, Vermont, United States
- Pack Monadnock, a mountain in the Wapack Range of southern New Hampshire
- North Pack Monadnock, a mountain in the Wapack Range of southern New Hampshire
- Little Monadnock Mountain, a mountain located in southern New Hampshire in the towns of Troy and Fitzwilliam
Hiking trails
- Metacomet-Monadnock Trail, a hiking trail located in western Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire
- Monadnock-Sunapee Greenway, a hiking trail located in southwestern New Hampshire
Architecture
- The Monadnock Building, a proto-skyscraper located in the city of Chicago, Illinois
Business
- Monadnock Lifetime Products, a law enforcement equipment company
Ships
- USS Monadnock, various ships of the United States Navy with this name
Usage examples of "monadnock".
The two of them had driven from Boston last night, speeding up Route 93 past the brightly lit ring roads curving round the city like lines of defense, through the lowlands of southeastern New Hampshire, and finally, long after darkness had fallen, past the dim shapes of star lit hills and a range of distant mountains, Sunapee and the Monadnocks looming far to the southwest.