promontory

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɒm.ən.tɹi/    美 /ˈpɹɑməntɔɹi/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
    — Leaving behind us the town at the bottom of its deep bay, we set out to explore a bluff-headed parallelogramical promontory, bounded by Thurso Bay on the one hand, and Murkle Bay on the other, and which presents to the open sea, in the space that stretches between, an undulating line of iron-bound coast, exposed to the roll of the northern ocean.
  2. A projecting part of the body.; A projection on the sacrum.
  3. A projecting part of the body.; A rounded elevation in the tympanum of the ear.

词形变化

promontories plural

词汇关系

衍生词
promontoried Promontory Point Wilsons Promontory
相关词
prominent

词源

From Medieval Latin prōmontōrium, from prōmineō, from prō- + *mineō (“to project or jut”, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out”)) + -tōrium (“place”).
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