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noun

Promontory n. (pl. promontories)

(Phys. Geog.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. "Like one that stands upon a promontory."

(Anat.) A projecting part. Especially:

(a)

The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra.

(b)

A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

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Etymology of 'Promontory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Promontory" Quotes from Famous Books

... moment come to moor. On the farther point, so close to the sea that it seemed to rise out of the water, stood a high stone lighthouse, with a revolving light, whose rays swept the open sea for many miles. The opposite river bank was a much higher one, and ran farther out to sea. On this promontory was Safe Haven, a small, thickly settled town, whose spires and house-tops, as seen from the beach at "The Runs," looked always like a picture, painted on the sky; white on gray in the morning, gray on crimson at sunset. The farmhouse of which we have spoken stood only ...

— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous

... up abruptly, slipped on his snow-shoes, and went round the shoulder of the hill, and up on to the promontory, to get out of earshot of that voice, and determine which of the two ice-roads, stretching out before them, was main ...

— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)

... on their fruitless quest, and the third day, after cruising along the shore of a deep inlet, they passed a line of lofty cliffs that formed the southern shore of the inlet and rounded a sharp promontory about noon. Co-Tan and Bradley were on deck alone, and as the new shoreline appeared beyond the point, the girl gave an exclamation of joy and seized the man's hand ...

— Out of Time's Abyss • Edgar Rice Burroughs

... a great ocean, one day, still thinking of plans to dry away any unpleasant dampness, when he saw a Petrel sitting on a rocky promontory. ...

— Girl Scouts in the Adirondacks • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... whole thing overpowers you. The poet that lives in nearly every human soul rouses within you and you feel like withdrawing to yon dense grove or yon peaked promontory to commune with Nature. But be advised in season. Restrain yourself! Carefully refrain! Do not do so! Because out from under a rock somewhere will crawl a real-estate agent to ask you how you like the climate and take a dollar down as first payment on ...

— Roughing it De Luxe • Irvin S. Cobb

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