Mount Hope

English

Etymology

In Rhode Island, often said to be from Massachusett Montaup, but there is little to back up this claim. That word has been compared to Montauk, but may not be identical.[1] Alternatively, named after the Puritan virtue of Hope, or from Old Norse hóp (“narrow bay”).[2]

Proper noun

Mount Hope

  1. A hill in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States.
  2. A place in Australia:
    1. A small settlement in Cobar Shire, western New South Wales.
    2. A small town in Lower Eyre Peninsula district council area, South Australia.
    3. A hill (granite outcrop) in northern Victoria.

Derived terms

References
  1. William H. Babcock (1913) “Early Norse Visits to North America”, in Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, volume 59, number 19, →OCLC, page 138
  2. Thomas Williams Bicknell (1898) A History of Barrington, Rhode Island, Providence: Snow & Farnham, →OCLC, page 10
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