promontory in English

noun
1
a point of high land that juts out into a large body of water; a headland.
a rocky promontory

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1. A projecting land mass; a promontory.

2. Or piny promontory of the Arctic main.

3. Cap Corse is Corsica’s northern promontory

4. 17 A promontory of extreme southern Nova Scotia, Canada.

5. A promontory at the northwest extremitythe scottish mainland.

6. It was located at promontory of southern Xiamen island.

7. Course two hundred ten degrees straight in for the central promontory.

8. The plane crashed just off a promontory called Lovers' Point.

9. A fisherman is silhouetted there, standing on a rocky promontory.

10. Yet another fortress stands on a promontory only half a mile away.

11. Coastal winds are also causing problems with a fire at Wilsons Promontory.

12. Indeed, this promontory has earned its name, Monte Forato—the Pierced Mountain.

13. They were on a promontory which had been built up with blocks of granite.

14. A tapering extension of land projecting into water; a peninsula, cape, or promontory.

15. A stark ,[sentence dictionary] rocky promontory towered over a stand of majestic pines.

16. " So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathan to attend their prey,

17. The place of her burial was called Cynosema, a promontory of the Thracian Chersonese

18. Carthage was built on a promontory with sea inlets to the north and the south.

19. Synonyms for Chersonese include cape, headland, point, promontory, foreland, head, ness, peninsula, bill and neck

20. It was perched on a small promontory to the east of the town, overlooking the bay.

21. It was such a jolly little lighthouse, white, and standing at the very end of a promontory.

22. The Douglas castle of Morton stands on a promontory, protected on three sides by a small loch.

23. Arrantness - definition - embossment - exaltation - excellence - high relief - importance - notability - patentness - precedence - projection - prominence - promontory - protrusion - reputation - tuberosity - …

24. His ashes were deposited in a golden urn on the Rhoetean promontory at the entrance of the Hellespont.

25. There was a narrow stone path, Alexei now saw, around the base of the promontory beyond the buttress.

26. Further North lay the city of Ashur on a rocky promontory overlooking an important crossing of the River Tigris.

27. Casterly Rock, the mighty House Lannister, was built atop a gold mine in the Westerlands on a rocky promontory

28. Located on the western coast of Westeros by the Summer Sea, Casterly Rock is situated on an imposing promontory, looming

29. In the end, they met among the monastery buildings at Melrose, on its river-girt promontory thirty miles inland from Berwick.

30. On the wall behind him there was a picture of a stag lowering its antlers on a rocky promontory beneath puffy clouds.

31. A promontory of northern France extending into the Strait of Dover near Calais. It is the nearest point to the island of Great Britain.

32. Perched on a promontory and lapped by the sea, Rodi Garganico, amid green cone pines, olive groves and orange orchards, is considered the garden of Gargano.

33. In 1093, Arnulf of Montgomery built the first castle at the site when he fortified the promontory beside the Pembroke River during the Norman invasion of Wales.

34. In orderto Accommodatehis battle scenes, ~i: i the artist pushed Jerusalem far northward, and sirie (Syria) is inscribed on the promontory that should be Asia Minor.The seven mouthsof the Nile

35. In 1798, the bay was protected at its western end by extensive rocky shoals which ran 3 miles (4.8 km) into the bay from a promontory guarded by Aboukir Castle.

36. In orderto Accommodatehis battle scenes, ~i: i the artist pushed Jerusalem far northward, and sirie (Syria) is inscribed on the promontory that should be Asia Minor.The seven mouthsof the Nile : 10

37. A city of southwest Yugoslavia on a promontory jutting into the Adriatic Sea. A popular tourist resort, it was a center of Serbo-Croatian culture and literature in medieval times. Population, sentence dictionary

38. Acropolis (plural Acropolises or acropoleis) A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the classical period; compare Acropolis.

39. " There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea. "

40. It included the basal part of the bony separation between the cochlear coils plus the adjacent bony area between the cochlea, the middle ear promontory, the vestibule and the inferior part of the internal auditory canal fundus.

41. Acropolis (plural acropolises or Acropoleis) A promontory (usually fortified with a citadel) forming the hub of many Grecian cities, and around which many were built for defensive purposes before and during the classical period; compare Acropolis

42. On the " Timpone "(promontory) in front of Leni, hanging over the Rinella seaside, here is our splendid farm, a building immersed in the green, close to the main sanctuary of the Aeolian Islands, Madonna del Terzito.

43. Already, by the first of September, I had seen two or three small maples turned scarlet across the pond, beneath where the white stems of three aspens diverged, at the point of a promontory, next the water.

44. From about 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small region known to the Romans as Old Latium (Latium Vetus), that is, the area between the river Tiber and the promontory of Mount Circeo 100 kilometres (62 mi) SE of Rome.

45. I suspect that the Authoress in her mind makes Telemachus come back from Pylos to the Lilybaean promontory and thence to Trapani through the strait between the Isola Grande and the mainland--the island of Asteria being the one on which Motya afterwards stood.

46. Consequently the pilots, in spite of the fury of the waves, started from Formiae, and while they were struggling to double the promontory of Misenum, they were dashed by a violent south-west wind on the shores of Cumae, and lost, in all directions, a number of their triremes with some smaller vessels.

47. For example, omomyids lack the numerous skeletal specializations of living haplorhines, including: significant reduction of the canal for the stapedial branch of the internal carotid artery. a "perbullar" (rather than "transpromontorial") route of the canal for the promontory branch of the internal carotid artery. contact between the alisphenoid and zygomatic bones. presence of an anterior accessory cavity confluent with the Tympanic cavity.

48. MILAZZO is deeply rooted into prehistoric times and was slowly built up along a sinuous and variegated dorsal that stretches out into the Tyrrhenian Sea for 7 km after the earth movements that formed the bold outline of its promontory on the directrix of the Aeolian Islands. Thanks to the splendid climate, the superb, restful panorama of the Archipelago, standing out on the horizon in a myriad of light and colour, can nearly always be seen from here.

49. At the place where the Alps incline toward the Mediterranean and seem to lose their harshness in order to suggest a sign of goodwill and gentleness, the territory of your Principality extends over a corner of privileged earth: hills in graceful outline, a promontory with a welcoming roadway whose calm waters, stirred by the swift coursing of sailboats, reflect the azure of the heavens and the image of a peaceful dwelling place.

50. Hotel in Ricadi: The Hotel Capovaticano Resort stands out in its enchanting position it is situated in the territory of Ricadi on the splendid western coast of Calabria just 12km from Tropea a romantic pearl of southern Italy on the tip of the sea and just 200m from the magnificent rocky promontory of Capo Vaticano which separates the gulf of SantEufemia from that of Gioia Tauro. It covers a surface area of 60000 square metres in amongst pathways and gardens of typical Mediterranean vegetation in perfect harmony with the surrounding countryside and opposite the splendid scenario of the Aeolian Islands which are well visible from the resort.