Synonyms for promontory
ˈprɒm ənˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr ipromon·to·ry

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1. promontorynoun

   Synonyms:
   hoe, headland

2. promontorynoun

   A high point of land extending into a body of water, headland; cliff.

   Synonyms:
   hoe, headland

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1. promontory

   Synonyms:
   headland, jutland, cape

   Antonyms:
   bay, cove, recess

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1. promontory, headland, head, forelandnoun

   a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)

   Synonyms:
   headway, headland, heading, straits, oral sex, capitulum, psyche, school principal, question, read/write head, forefront, point, header, drumhead, mind, chief, headspring, head, nous, fountainhead, head teacher, caput, pass, principal, brain, head word, foreland, top dog

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1. • Natural Elevation

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1. promontorynoun

   Synonyms:
   headland, foreland, cape

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1. List of paraphrases for "promontory":

   headland

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How to use promontory in a sentence?

1. Victor Hugo:

   Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

2. Socrates:

   See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all.

3. D. H. Lawrence:

   We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

4. John Donne:

   No man is an Island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls It tolls for thee.