promontory

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Geography, Geologypromontoryprom‧on‧to‧ry /ˈprɒməntəri $ ˈprɑːməntɔːri/ noun (plural promontories) [countable] SGa long narrow piece of land which sticks out into the sea a rocky promontoryExamples from the Corpuspromontory• It was such a jolly little lighthouse, white, and standing at the very end of a promontory.• The plane crashed just off a promontory called Lovers' Point.• Yet another fortress stands on a promontory only half a mile away.• The Douglas castle of Morton stands on a promontory, protected on three sides by a small loch.• Course two hundred ten degrees straight in for the central promontory.• On the wall behind him there was a picture of a stag lowering its antlers on a rocky promontory beneath puffy clouds.• The bay, the promontories, the little white pencil of a lighthouse stuck on its rock.Origin promontory (1500-1600) Latin promonturium

单词	promontory
释义	promontory From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Geography, Geologypromontoryprom‧on‧to‧ry /ˈprɒməntəri $ ˈprɑːməntɔːri/ noun (plural promontories) [countable] SGa long narrow piece of land which sticks out into the sea a rocky promontoryExamples from the Corpuspromontory• It was such a jolly little lighthouse, white, and standing at the very end of a promontory.• The plane crashed just off a promontory called Lovers' Point.• Yet another fortress stands on a promontory only half a mile away.• The Douglas castle of Morton stands on a promontory, protected on three sides by a small loch.• Course two hundred ten degrees straight in for the central promontory.• On the wall behind him there was a picture of a stag lowering its antlers on a rocky promontory beneath puffy clouds.• The bay, the promontories, the little white pencil of a lighthouse stuck on its rock.Origin promontory (1500-1600) Latin promonturium
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