Mountain
See also: mountain
English
Etymology
From mountain.
Proper noun
Mountain (countable and uncountable, plural Mountains)
- A placename
- A village in North Dakota, United States.
- A town in Wisconsin, United States.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Mountain Township.
- The Rural Municipality of Mountain, a rural municipality in western Manitoba, Canada.
- A hamlet near Queensbury, Metropolitan Borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0930). [1]
- (countable) A surname.
- (historical, with "the") The Montagnard party in the time of the French Revolution.
Noun
Mountain (plural Mountains)
- (rail transport) a steam locomotive of the 4-8-2 wheel arrangement.
- 1959, David P. Morgan, editor, Steam's Finest Hour, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 106:
- Western Pacific wisely devoted its design energies to the articulateds which produced most of its gross, left the 4-6-0's that came with the road plus a few secondhand Florida East Coast Mountains for its sparse passenger service.
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