Usually means: High land projecting into water.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. promontory: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. promontory: Merriam-Webster
  3. promontory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. promontory: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. promontory: Collins English Dictionary
  6. promontory: Vocabulary.com
  7. Promontory, promontory: Wordnik
  8. promontory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. promontory: Wiktionary
  10. promontory: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. promontory: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. promontory: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. promontory: Dictionary.com
  14. promontory: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Promontory (building), Promontory (disambiguation), Promontory: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Promontory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. promontory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. promontory: Rhymezone
  19. Promontory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. promontory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. promontory: FreeDictionary.org
  22. promontory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. promontory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. promontory: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. promontory: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. promontory: Medical dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
noun:  (anatomy) A projecting part of the body.
noun:  A projection on the sacrum.
noun:  A rounded elevation in the tympanum of the ear.

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