The rocky massif located around the Iset River also served as a natural fortification.
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Massif
//mæˈsiːf//
Synonyms for "massif" (2 found)
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67 translations across 56 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- نَجْد noun (principal mountain mass)
Aragonese
1 entries- macizo noun (principal mountain mass)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Basque
1 entries- mendigune noun (principal mountain mass)
Belarusian
1 entries- масі́ў noun (principal mountain mass)
Bulgarian
1 entries- маси́в noun (principal mountain mass)
Catalan
1 entries- massís noun (principal mountain mass)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 体 noun (principal mountain mass)
- 山體 /山体 noun (principal mountain mass)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 地塊 /地块 noun (block of the earth's crust)
- 山體 /山体 noun (principal mountain mass)
Czech
1 entries- masiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Danish
2 entries- bjergmassiv noun (principal mountain mass)
- massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Dutch
2 entries- bergmassief noun (principal mountain mass)
- massief noun (principal mountain mass)
Esperanto
1 entries- masivo noun (principal mountain mass)
Estonian
1 entries- massiiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Finnish
2 entries- massiivi noun (principal mountain mass)
- massiivi noun (block of the earth's crust)
French
1 entries- massif noun (principal mountain mass)
Galician
1 entries- macizo noun (principal mountain mass)
Georgian
1 entries- მასივი noun (principal mountain mass)
German
2 entries- Massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
- Massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Greek
1 entries- μασίφ noun (principal mountain mass)
Hebrew
1 entries- מַסִּיף noun (principal mountain mass)
Hindi
2 entries- पुंजक noun (principal mountain mass)
- मैसिफ़ noun (principal mountain mass)
Hungarian
1 entries- masszívum noun (principal mountain mass)
Indonesian
1 entries- masif noun (principal mountain mass)
Irish
1 entries- masaíf noun (principal mountain mass)
Italian
1 entries- massiccio noun (principal mountain mass)
Japanese
1 entries- 山塊 noun (principal mountain mass)
Kazakh
1 entries- массив noun (principal mountain mass)
Korean
1 entries- 육괴 noun (principal mountain mass)
Kyrgyz
1 entries- массив noun (principal mountain mass)
Latvian
1 entries- masīvs noun (principal mountain mass)
Lithuanian
1 entries- masyvas noun (principal mountain mass)
Macedonian
1 entries- масив noun (principal mountain mass)
Malay
1 entries- massif noun (principal mountain mass)
Manx
1 entries- glout-sleitagh noun (principal mountain mass)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- masif noun (principal mountain mass)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- fjellmassiv noun (principal mountain mass)
- massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Occitan
1 entries- massís noun (principal mountain mass)
Persian
1 entries- تودهکوه noun (principal mountain mass)
Polish
1 entries- masyw noun (principal mountain mass)
Portuguese
1 entries- maciço noun (principal mountain mass)
Romanian
1 entries- masiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Russian
1 entries- масси́в noun (principal mountain mass)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- màsīv noun (principal mountain mass)
- ма̀сӣв noun (principal mountain mass)
Slovak
1 entries- masív noun (principal mountain mass)
Slovene
1 entries- masiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Spanish
1 entries- macizo noun (principal mountain mass)
Swedish
2 entries- bergsmassiv noun (principal mountain mass)
- massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
Tajik
1 entries- массив noun (principal mountain mass)
Turkish
1 entries- masif noun (principal mountain mass)
Turkmen
1 entries- massiw noun (principal mountain mass)
Ukrainian
1 entries- маси́в noun (principal mountain mass)
Uzbek
2 entries- massiv noun (principal mountain mass)
- массив noun (principal mountain mass)
Vietnamese
1 entries- khối núi noun (principal mountain mass)
Volapük
1 entries- masif noun (principal mountain mass)
Sample sentences
5 total sentences available.
This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line.
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The southern borders of these states are keyed to the same horizontal projection, one surveyed by the frontier planter William Byrd in 1728, while the rivers forming their northern extents fall back just opposite each other from the flanks of the Appalachian massif.
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Some deposits of iron ore are scattered along the edges of the massif in south - central France.
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