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promontory

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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
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