Montclair

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Montclair

  1. A city in San Bernardino County, California, United States.
  2. A city in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
  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.

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