MONT BLANC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mont Blanc mean? 

• MONT BLANC (noun)
  The noun MONT BLANC has 1 sense:

1. the highest mountain peak in the Alps; on the border between France and Italy to the south of Geneva (15,781 feet high)

  Familiarity information: MONT BLANC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONT BLANC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The highest mountain peak in the Alps; on the border between France and Italy to the south of Geneva (15,781 feet high)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mont Blanc; Monte Bianco

Instance hypernyms:

mountain peak (the summit of a mountain)

Holonyms ("Mont Blanc" is a part of...):

Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

Alps; the Alps (a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction)

 Context examples 

I discovered more distinctly the black sides of Jura, and the bright summit of Mont Blanc.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dôme overlooked the valley.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Observe how fast we move along and how the clouds, which sometimes obscure and sometimes rise above the dome of Mont Blanc, render this scene of beauty still more interesting.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

During this short voyage I saw the lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noisy way beneath.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We passed rapidly along; the sun was hot, but we were sheltered from its rays by a kind of canopy while we enjoyed the beauty of the scene, sometimes on one side of the lake, where we saw Mont Salêve, the pleasant banks of Montalègre, and at a distance, surmounting all, the beautiful Mont Blanc, and the assemblage of snowy mountains that in vain endeavour to emulate her; sometimes coasting the opposite banks, we saw the mighty Jura opposing its dark side to the ambition that would quit its native country, and an almost insurmountable barrier to the invader who should wish to enslave it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)