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Montgomery

[ mont-guhm-uh-ree, -guhm-ree ]

noun

  1. Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Monty, 1887–1976, British field marshal: World War II commander of British 8th Army in Africa and Europe.
  2. Lucy Maud, 1874–1942, Canadian writer, creator of Anne of Green Gables.
  3. Richard, 1736–75, American Revolutionary general.
  4. Wes John Leslie Montgomery, 1925–68, U.S. jazz guitarist.
  5. a city in and the capital of Alabama, in the central part, on the Alabama River.
  6. a town in SW Ohio.
  7. a male given name.


Montgomery

1

/ əԳˈɡʌəɪ /

noun

  1. a city in central Alabama, on the Alabama River: state capital; capital of the Confederacy (1861). Pop: 200 123 (2003 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Montgomery

2

/ əԳˈɡʌəɪ /

noun

  1. MontgomeryBernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein18871976MBritishMILITARY: general Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, nicknamed Monty. 1887–1976, British field marshal. As commander of the 8th Army in North Africa, he launched the offensive, beginning with the victory at El Alamein (1942), that drove Rommel's forces back to Tunis. He also commanded the ground forces in the invasion of Normandy (1944) and accepted Germany's surrender at Lüneburg Heath (May 7, 1945)
  2. MontgomeryL(ucy) M(aud)18741942FCanadianWRITING: writer L ( ucy ) M ( aud ). 1874–1942, Canadian writer; her novels include Anne of Green Gables (1908) and its sequels.
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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The case regards a Montgomery County school board's decision to include books featuring same-sex marriage, trans characters and a Pride parade as part of their curriculum.

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At issue are new “LGBTQ-inclusive” storybooks used for classroom reading for pre-kindergarten to 5th grade in Montgomery County, Md., a suburb of Washington where three justices reside.

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But in 2019, I found myself in Montgomery, Alabama, the first capital of the Confederacy.

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He’s a civil rights lawyer who has argued death penalty cases at the Supreme Court, and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Ala.

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Yes, I just rewatched “Red River” on the Criterion Channel, and Montgomery Clift is method and John Wayne is “old school.”

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