Associations to the word «Massif»

Wiktionary

MASSIF, noun. A principal mountain mass.
MASSIF, noun. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults or flexures and displaced as a unit without internal change; normally consists of gneisses and schists
MASSIF CENTRAL, proper noun. An elevated area of south-central France.

Dictionary definition

MASSIF, noun. A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope