How to pronounce monadnock
American English pronunciation
muh-NAD-nok
- IPA
- /məˈnædˌnɑk/
- Syllables
- muh · NAD · nok (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What monadnock means
A lone hill or mountain rising above a flat plain
In a sentence: From the car we could see a monadnock standing all by itself above the fields.
Where it comes from: It is named after Mount Monadnock in New England. That name came from a word in a language of the area's first peoples, perhaps meaning smooth mountain or lone mountain.
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