Montclair

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Montclair

1. A place in the United States, including:
   1. A city in San Bernardino County, California.
   2. A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
      • 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.

   3. A township in Essex County, New Jersey.
      • 2024 June 20, Wayne Parry, “U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry”, in AP News‎^[1], 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.

Derived terms

• Upper Montclair

Anagrams

• Clairmont, climatron