单词 | Mountains of the Moon |
释义 | Mountains of the Moon/ˈmaʊntɪnz əv ðə ˌmuːn/noun 1A mountain range in central Africa, now identified with the Mount Ruwenzori mountain group between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2The type of a very remote place; further than one can imagine, the ends of the earth. OriginLate 16th century; earliest use found in untitled. From the plural of mountain + of + the + moon, after Hellenistic Greek τὸ τῆς σελήνης ὄρος (c a.d. 150 in Ptolemy Geography 4. 9. 3: on singular form see etymological note). |
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