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

Its front door was six inches too short for its frame and outfitted with a bathroom push knob instead of a lever handle, almost as if the original slab had been blown from its casing by an internal explosion.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026
Some may be automatic, while others require the user to slip a cap over the end or rotate a knob.

— BestReviews, Mercury News, 11 Aug. 2026

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While most of the film’s characters are based on real-life figures, Aya Cash and Guy Burnet were cast as fictional journalists who offer an outside perspective on the summit and the Reagans and Gorbachevs.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 15 Aug. 2026
In 2025, after a joint appearance with Prince William at London’s COP30 climate summit, that concern intensified.

— Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of summit

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Asturias is washed by the weather blowing in from the sea and protected from the oven of the country’s central plains by the Picos de Europa, the jagged mountain range that forms the region’s southern border.

— Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 4 Aug. 2026
The third stage, starting in Geneva, takes the peloton north across the border into France and through the Jura mountain range before finishing in the town of Poligny.

— Jessica Hopkins, New York Times, 2 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

The seaside resort was once the pinnacle of Victorian holiday-making.

— George Francis Lee, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
The pinnacle was Brees' Super Bowl MVP performance against Indianapolis in February 2010 in Miami, marked by his second-half passing numbers of 19 completions on 20 attempts for 151 yards and two TDs.

— ABC News, ABC News, 4 Aug. 2026

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