montclair
/mˌɑntklˈɛɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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A township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
name
A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French