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Definition: Promontory |
PromontoryNoun1. A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "promontory" was first used: 1548. (references) |
Synonyms: PromontorySynonyms: foreland (n), headland (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The first transcontinental railroad in North America met at Promontory, Utah, near Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake.
A different place called Promontory Point, Utah is on Promontory Point, a cape jutting out into the Great Salt Lake. (Note that point is in the name.)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Promontory is a location in Box Elder County, Utah, centered approximately at 41°37'07"N, 112°32'51"W, with an elevation of 1494 meters (4902 feet) above sea level. [1]
Promotory Summit achieved note as the location where the United States' first transcontinental railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, with the driving of the Golden Spike, joining the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads.
Promontory was the site of a temporary city during and shortly after the construction of the railroad, but this was then dismantled, and since then Promontory has had no permanent population.
Since 1957 it has been preserved as part of the Golden Spike National Historic Site.
Important note: This place is often called Promontory Point, however that is a separate location at the southern tip of a peninsula (promontory) in the Great Salt Lake, which is not where the railroads met.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Promontory."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Hill; (height); cape, promontory, mull; forehead, foreland; point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur; naze, ness. |
Height | Mount, mountain; hill alto, butte, monticle, fell, knap; cape; headland, foreland; promontory; ridge, hog's back, dune; rising ground, vantage ground; down; moor, moorland; Alp; uplands, highlands; heights; (summit); knob, loma, pena, picacho, tump; knoll, hummock, hillock, barrow, mound, mole; steeps, bluff, cliff, craig, tor, peak, pike, clough; escarpment, edge, ledge, brae; dizzy height. |
Land | Continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta; tongue of land, neck of land; isthmus, oasis; promontory. (projection); highland. (height). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Promontory |
| English words defined with "promontory": Abila, Abyla, Actium ♦ Calpe, Cape Canaveral, Cape Hatteras, Cape Kennedy, Cape Sable ♦ Gibraltar ♦ Jebel Musa ♦ Namur ♦ point, Promont, Promontories ♦ Rock of Gibraltar. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "promontory": Bolerium Promontory ♦ Leucadia ♦ Misrephoth-maim ♦ Pelorus, Proboscis ♦ shear bursts. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "promontory": Promont. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Wild T-3 theodolite in use from Appalachian promontory. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Promontory on Sutwik Island in Shelikof Strait. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A promontory on Bridgeman Island. 62 04 S Latitude 56 44 W Longitude. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Special train of Governor Stanford, president of the Central Pacific, and [wagon] train of immigrants bound for California at Monument Point, a few miles west of Promontory, Utah, where the last spike was driven in the first transcontinental railroad on M. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cap a L'Aigle promontory, Quebec. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Robert Burton | See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. |
Victor Hugo | Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The heap of rubbish made a sort of eminence at the edge of the water, which prolonged like a promontory, as far as the wall of the quai. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | However, in selected individuals, such as those with cochlear obliteration or in decisions regarding ear of implantation, the results of promontory stimulation may be useful. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. Asked how he knew that an elephant was going on a journey, the illustrious Jo. Miller cast a reproachful look upon his tormentor, and answered, absently: "When it is ajar," and threw himself from a high promontory into the sea. Thus perished in his pride the most famous humorist of antiquity, leaving to mankind a heritage of woe! No successor worthy of the title has appeared, though Mr. Edward bok, of The Ladies' Home Journal, is much respected for the purity and sweetness of his personal character. |
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| "Promontory" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Promontory" is used about 83 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 83 | 36,350 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "promontory"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kep (Cape, foreland, headland, horn, jag, Ness, peak, point), gungë (boss, bump, gibbosity, hummock, hump, hunch, knob, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nub, overgrowth, protuberance, swell, swelling, tuber, tubercle, tumefaction), gjuhëz (bleak, bolt, clapper, panhandle, Reed, reed pipe, sole, strip, tenon, tongue), e dalë (bay, drip, extrusion, jut, lug, nib, nipple, offset, outing, overhang, projection, protuberance, shelf, torus, undershot). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نتوء خليجي, نتوء جسدي, صخرة شاطئية, رعن, شناخ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нос (boko, bow, conk, foreland, head, headland, hoe, hook, naze, nose, nozzle, pecker, point, prow, smeller, stem, tongue), подутина (bump, gibbosity, lump, protuberance, swell, swelling, tumefaction), издатина (burr, horn, hump, jut, ledge, process, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, salient, set off, shelf, swell, tuber). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | předhoří, mys (Cape, headland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | promontorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | promontorium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | niemi (cape, headland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | promontoire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | vorgebirge (foothills, forelands). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ακρωτήριο (acroterion, acroterium, cape, foreland, headland). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | צוק חוף. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hegyfok (bill, bluff, brow, foreland, head, headland, hoe, naze, ness, reach). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | promontorio (bluff, cape, foreland, headland, naze, Ness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 岬' (anat promontory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | "うかく (anat promontory, angle of intersection, carapace, corners of the mouth, crust, demotion, high shelf, high-angle, optic or photic sense, shell, tall building, wide-angle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | meayll (cape, crop-eared, depressed, flat, mull, toneless), kione cheerey (cape, foreland, peninsula), gob (apex, beak, bow, bow of ship, headland, hook, jet, jut, lip of jug, mouth, muzzle, nib, nose, nosepiece, pee of anchor, point, prominence, spit, spout). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | omontorypray promontório (bill, cape, foreland, naze, ness). (various references) promontoriu (bill, Cape, foreland, head, headland, Mull, Ness, peninsula, rock), cap (bean, beginning, brains, Cape, chief, chump, end, foreland, front, head, heading, headland, judgment, knob, lid, loaf, mastermind, Mull, Ness, noddle, noggin, nut, pate, peak, peninsula, pericranium, pommel, rock, sense, skull, top, understanding). (various references) мыс (cape, foreland, headland, point, pt.). (various references) sròn (a nose, nose), rubha (point of land jutting into the sea), maol (bald, bare, blunt, cape, edgeless, hornless, pointless, polled). (various references) rt (cape, foreland, headland, naze, ness, tongue), ispupčenje (boss, bulge, bump, protuberance). (various references) promontorio (beak, bill, Cape, foreland, headland). (various references) udde (Cape, foreland, headland, hook, naze, Ness, point). (various references) dağlık burun, burun (beak, bill, Cape, conk, foreland, headland, hooter, nasal, Ness, nose, nozzle, prominence, rhinal, rhino-, smeller, Snoot, snout, tip), çıkıntı (bulge, foreland, jut, ledge, offset, outgrowth, overhang, process, projection, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, raise, ridge, salience, saliency, spur, style, stylus, tab). (various references) виступ (address, appearance, corbel, gibbosity, jut, ledge, nib, offset, overhang, projection, protrusion, salience, salient, shoulder, snag, spine, teat, ward), мис (cusp, foreland, headland, hoe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acrabattene, promontorium, promunturium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Promontory" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: premotor, preomnor, promentory, promonitory, promonotory, promontary, promontoire, promontorie, promortory, promotor, promotory. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "m-n-o-o-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: moonport. | |
-3 letters: toponym. | |
-4 letters: pronto, proton, torpor. | |
-5 letters: moony, moory, moron, morro, motor, porno, porny, promo, roomy, rooty, rotor, toyon, tromp, troop. | |
| Words containing the letters "m-n-o-o-o-p-r-r-t-y" | |
+5 letters: noncontemporary. | |
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