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promontory

UK/ˈpɹɒm.ən.tɹi/US/ˈpɹɑməntɔɹi/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,818 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: promontories

A promontory is a high point of land jutting into the sea. Stand on the promontory, a rocky promontory, round the promontory.

It is higher than a headland need be, and the height is the whole of the word. They are where forts and lighthouses go, since a promontory sees a long way in both directions along a coast.

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Definitions of promontory

  1. 1nounpromontoryA high point of land jutting into the sea.C2

    “The ruined castle stands on a rocky promontory high above the waves.”

promontory is a landform.

Where it comes from

Latin promontorium comes from prominere, to jut out.

  1. Proto-Indo-European

    *per-

  2. Proto-Indo-European

    *men- — to stand out

  3. Medieval Latin

    prōmontōrium

  4. English, today

    promontory

From Medieval Latin prōmontōrium, from prōmineō, from prō- + mineō (“to project or jut”) -tōrium.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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promontory in the wild

  • The base of the sacrum, the broadest and uppermost part, is tilted forward as the sacral promontory internally.

    Sacrum

  • The oldest known promontory fort is Amnya I in Siberia which was established as a fortified site in the late 7th millennium BC.

    Promontory fort

  • The surface of the promontory is furrowed by fine grooves that accommodate to the strands of the tympanic plexus.

    Promontory of tympanic cavity

  • A minute spicule of bone frequently connects the promontory to the pyramidal eminence.

    Promontory of tympanic cavity

  • A promontory is a raised mass of land that projects into a lowland or a body of water (in which case it is a peninsula).

    Promontory

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.