Monongahela

//məˌnɒŋɡəˈhiːlə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An Iroquoian Native American culture from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia, whose sites have been mostly found in the Monongahela River valley. historical, plural, plural-only
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.
  2. 2
    A city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

    "Just a couple of weeks later, on Sept. 23, Greene sat directly behind McCarthy in a manufacturing facility in Monongahela, Pa., as he publicly previewed what a House Republican majority’s legislative agenda would look like."

Synonyms

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mon citymonongahela river

Example

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"Just a couple of weeks later, on Sept. 23, Greene sat directly behind McCarthy in a manufacturing facility in Monongahela, Pa., as he publicly previewed what a House Republican majority’s legislative agenda would look like."

Etymology

From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).

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