Montana

name

Etymology: From Latin montāna * the US state via Spanish montaña (“mountain”) * the surname from Spanish Montaña topographic surname

1. A placename.
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   “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.”

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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. 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.”