mountain
1. a land mass that projects well above its surroundings;
higher than a hill (Freq. 17)
• Syn:
mount
• Derivationally related forms:
mountainous, mountaineer
• Hypernyms:
natural elevation, elevation
• Hyponyms:
alp, ben, seamount, volcano
• Instance Hyponyms:
Black Hills
• Part Meronyms:
mountain peak, mountainside, versant
2. (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent
- a batch of letters
- a deal of trouble
- a lot of money
- he made a mint on the stock market
- see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
- it must have cost plenty
- a slew of journalists
- a wad of money
• Syn:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
mint, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty,
pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate,
stack, tidy sum, wad
• Derivationally related forms:
wad (for: wad), plenteous (for: plenty), pile (for: pile), heap (for: heap)
• Hypernyms:
large indefinite quantity, large indefinite amount
• Hyponyms:
flood, inundation, deluge, torrent, haymow
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