| Main Entry: | promontory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | headland |
Synonyms: |
bluff, cape, cheronese, foreland, jetty, jutty, peninsula, point, ridge |
| Main Entry: | bluff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | precipice |
Synonyms: |
bank, cliff, crag, escarpment, headland, hill, mountain, peak, promontory, ridge, rock |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swollen object |
Synonyms: |
appendage, bagginess, blob, bump, bunch, bunching, convexity, dilation, distention, excess, excrescence, gibbosity, growth, hump, intumescence, jut, lump, nodulation, nodule, outgrowth, outthrust, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, sac, sagging, salience, salient, superfluity, swelling, tuberosity, tumefaction, tumor, wart |
Antonyms: |
depression |
| Main Entry: | eminence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high ground |
Synonyms: |
altitude, elevation, height, highland, highness, hill, hillock, knoll, loftiness, peak, project, prominence, promontory, raise, ridge, rise, summit, upland |
Antonyms: |
flat, low ground |
| Main Entry: | head |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | top part |
Synonyms: |
apex, banner, beak, bill, cap, cork, crest, crown, heading, headline, height, peak, pitch, point, promontory, streamer, summit, tip, vertex |
Antonyms: |
bottom, end, rear |
| Main Entry: | hill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising of earth's surface; pile |
Synonyms: |
acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, climb, down, drift, dune, elevation, eminence, esker, fell, gradient, headland, heap, height, highland, hillock, hillside, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, protuberance, range, ridge, rise, rising ground, shock, slope, stack, summit, talus, tor, upland |
Antonyms: |
canyon, ditch, gulley |
| Main Entry: | hillock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hill |
Synonyms: |
acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, drift, dune, elevation, esker, headland, heap, highland, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, ridge, rise, slope, summit |
| Main Entry: | knoll |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small hill |
Synonyms: |
acclivity, ascent, bluff, butte, cliff, drift, dune, elevation, esker, headland, heap, highland, hillock, hilltop, hummock, inclination, incline, knoll, mesa, mound, mount, precipice, prominence, promontory, ridge, rise, slope, summit |
| Main Entry: | landmark |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | historical or notable sight |
Synonyms: |
battleground, benchmark, bend, blaze, feature, fragment, guide, hill, mark, marker, memorial, milepost, milestone, monument, mountain, museum, promontory, remnant, ruins, souvenir, specimen, stone, survival, trace, tree, vantage point, vestige, waypost |
| Main Entry: | point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sharp end, top, end of extension |
Synonyms: |
apex, awn, barb, beak, bill, cape, claw, cusp, dagger, foreland, head, headland, jag, nib, pin point, prick, prickler, promontory, prong, snag, spike, spine, spire, spur, sticker, stiletto, summit, sword, thorn, tine, tip, tooth |
| Notes: | the stylus, or point, of a record player is held by the cartridge; the base of the turntable is called the deck |
Antonyms: |
bluntness, dullness |