Montana

proper noun

1. 1

   A placename. A town and province in northwestern Bulgaria.

2. 2

   A placename. A former municipality of Valais canton, Switzerland.

3. 3

   A placename. A locality in northern Tasmania, Australia.

4. 4

   A placename. A place in the United States. A state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Helena. Largest city: Billings.

   Mr. WADE. I move to take up House bill No. 15 to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana.

   While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.

   First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness.

5. 5

   A placename. A place in the United States. A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory: A town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.

6. 6

   A placename. A place in the United States. A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory: An unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.

7. 7

   A placename. A place in the United States. A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory: An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.

8. 8

   A placename. A place in the United States. A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory: An unincorporated community in Warren County, New Jersey.

9. 9

   A placename. A place in the United States. A place in the United States, named after Montana Territory: An unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.

10. 10

    A placename. A barangay of Baclayon, Bohol, Philippines.

11. 11

    A unisex given name transferred from the place name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.

    'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. […]

12. 12

    A surname from Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain, Mount, or Hill.

    Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Forms

plural

Montanas