promontory 的定义
plural prom·on·to·ries.
- a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
- a bluff, or part of a plateau, overlooking a lowland.
- Anatomy. a prominent or protuberant part.
promontory 近义词
headland
更多promontory例句
- As well as if a promontory were,as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were.
- Promontory is something else, former regulators who help banks comply with—and predict— what their regulators do.
- Have the president drive in the golden fence post at Promontory Point II and sign the amnesty right there.
- One of the woods of this forest, advancing far into the inundated valley, formed a sort of promontory above the sheet of water.
- "That sandy promontory on the extremity of which stands Fortress Monroe," he answered.
- The promontory Trogilium itself may be considered as a foot of the mountain Mycale.
- On the coast of the continent opposite to the Myndian territory is Astypalæa a promontory, and Zephyrium.
- Above Soli in the interior is Limenia a city, then follows the promontory of Crommyon.