Associations to the word «Promontory»

Wiktionary

PROMONTORY, noun. A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.
PROMONTORY, noun. (anatomy) A projecting part of the body.

Dictionary definition

PROMONTORY, noun. A natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne