montclairとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French mont (“mountain”) + clair (“clear”).

固有名詞

Montclair

1. A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
2. A city in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
   • 2024 June 20, Wayne Parry, “U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 19 August 2024:

     Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said.

3. A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.
   • 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 137:

     That was where he grew up […] near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like Piedmont, which had paid for the right to declare itself its own city, to become officially not-Oakland.

アナグラム

• Clairmont, climatron