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mo⋅nad⋅nock

  [muh-nad-nok]
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–noun
1. Physical Geography. a residual hill or mountain standing well above the surface of a surrounding peneplain.
2. (initial capital letter) Mount, a mountain peak in SW New Hampshire. 3186 ft. (971 m).
Origin:
1735–45, Americanism; after (Grand) Monadnock (earlier name of Mount Monadnock) < a S New England Algonquian name, lit., isolated mountain
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monadnock   (mə-nād'nŏk')  Pronunciation Key 
A mountain or rocky mass that has resisted erosion and stands isolated in an essentially level area.
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