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Promontory

//ˈpɹɑməntɔɹi// name, noun

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1
A location in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, where the first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, and the golden spike ceremony was held. historical

Noun

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 natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) wordnet
3
A projecting part of the body.; A projection on the sacrum.
4
A projecting part of the body.; A rounded elevation in the tympanum of the ear.

Etymology

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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