SEAMOUNT Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

seamount

noun

Definition of seamount

as in inselberg

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Recent Examples of seamount However, little is known about the marine life found on seamounts, particularly those in the most likely regions for crust exploration and mining. — Leonardo MacElloni, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2026 These cobalt crusts are found on seamount slopes, which contain vital metals such as cobalt, nickel, and platinum. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025 The seamount is 250 miles north of Palau — an island country east of the Philippines — and multibeam sonar revealed its peak is hidden about 800 feet below the surface. — Mark Price, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025 Or book a berth aboard the eight-passenger Water and Wind catamaran to sites that include Princess Alice Bank, where huge schools of jack, tuna, and barracuda cloud the seamount. — Terry Ward, AFAR Media, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for seamount

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Noun

Sun, wind, and water sculpted the sandstone into a dramatic, desolate, unearthly landscape of gorges and valleys, inselbergs and stacks, towering tassili and natural arches.

— Aminatta Forna, Condé Nast Traveler, 13 Aug. 2024
Geologists had suspected that these inselbergs, found in Brazil, Australia, and southern Africa, are old—enduring while erosion stripped away the surrounding landscape.

— Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019

Definition of inselberg

Noun

At least 5,000 people perished, most of them in La Guaira state, a strip of cities and slums crammed between the coastal cordillera and the Caribbean Sea, half an hour from Caracas.

— Rafael Osío Cabrices, Time, 20 July 2026
Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019

Definition of cordillera

Noun

But before Bane can finish him off, Batman stabs a Batarang into a little knob on Bane’s wrist gauntlet, the one that controls his intake of Venom.

— Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 24 Aug. 2026
All the mixes and all the pans and everything were all people operating the things, the pots, the knobs and things.

— Kyle Eustice, SPIN, 24 Aug. 2026

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The Life of a Showgirl, which dropped in the fall of 2025 and immediately soared to the summit with the largest opening figure of all time, became her milestone fifteenth champion.

— Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
Trump has also failed to hold the annual summits of the Quad, raising doubts that the United States is committed to that security partnership and to preventing Chinese dominance across Asia.

— C. Raja Mohan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of summit

Noun

This town sits at the crossing of the Columbia River Gorge and the Cascade mountain range, and it’s known as the windsurfing capital of the world.

— Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 25 Aug. 2026
Home to Ireland’s tallest mountain range, the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, the area takes these calming hues to towering heights.

— Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of mountain range

Noun

Mallorca’s very own mountain range is perfect walking territory, boasting the famous Ruta de Pedra en Sec (Dry Stone Route), a 93-mile trail that runs the length of the sierra from Andratx to Pollença.

— Paul Richardson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2026
Facial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.

— Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022

Definition of sierra

Noun

By Christmas it had been canonized as the pinnacle of ‘sad girl lit’ with Martha taking her place in that post-Fleabag lineage of fractured female characters.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2026
Researchers told me that many Democrats believe that the pinnacle of achievement is having a good education and a fruitful career.

— Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 20 Aug. 2026

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