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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
mountain/ˈmaʊntən/
noun
  • 1 an elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly and to a large height from the surrounding level.
  • 2 a large pile or quantity of something.

    ■ a large surplus stock of a commodity: a butter mountain.

– phrases
move mountains achieve spectacular and apparently impossible results.
– derivatives
mountainy adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. montaigne, based on L. mons, mont- ‘mountain’.



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