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Definition of Monadnock
1. Noun. A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominately flat plain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monadnock
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monadnock
Literary usage of Monadnock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventure Guide to New Hampshire by Elizabeth L. Dugger (2002)
"ing Mt. monadnock to Mt. Sunapee along the monadnock Highlands. ... Adventures •
On Foot monadnock & Pack monadnock The region's premier climb is Grand ..."
2. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"THE CRUISE OF THE "monadnock." NO. m. WHILE we were lying in the harbor of ...
Some of the monadnock'; officers, thinking to give piquancy to the affair, ..."
3. History of the Town of Rindge, New Hampshire, from the Date of the Rowley by Ezra Scollay Stearns (1875)
"monadnock Number Seven; and Washington, monadnock Number Eight. By this survey
the boundaries of the township, formerly known as Rowley Canada, ..."
4. Poems by Edna Dean Proctor (1890)
"monadnock IN OCTOBER. UPROSE monadnock in the northern blue, A mighty minster
builded to the Lord ! The setting sun his crimson radiance threw On crest, ..."
5. The Magazine of History with Notes and Queries (1915)
"THE FIGHT FOR OLD monadnock COMMON lands are an uncommon thing this side of Old
England, but New England has inherited a few through its British colonial ..."
6. History of the Town of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, from the Date of the Masonian by Daniel Bateman Cutter (1881)
"Immediately after the purchase, the above described tract of land was divided by
the proprietors into townships. Those around the monadnock hills, ..."
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