Definitions for massifs

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massifs mas·sif

Spelling: [ma-seef, mas-if; French ma- Massifs is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 86 anagrams from letters in massifs (afimsss).

Definitions for massifs

noun

1. a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits.
2. a large elevated block of old complex rocks resistant to both erosion and crustal folding.
3. a band or zone of the earth's crust raised or depressed as a unit and bounded by faults.

Origin of massifs

1515-25; French, noun use of massif massive

Examples for massifs

Its most striking feature is the mountainous and eruptive area known as the massif Central, which covers south-central France.

They are exposed on the one hand in the neighbourhood of the Rhine and on the other hand in the Bohemian massif.

Above the plain, which sweeps away from the northern bank, rises the "massif" of Laon.

massif will publish it at his own expense, and you will appear before the public in one month.

massif ought to pay him in a few days five hundred francs for the second edition of his book; but what is a handful of napoleons?

Didron thus describes it: Cet anneau est en or massif; il pese 14 gram.

It rests on the western side on the massif de Moronvillers; to the east it stretches as far as the Argonne.

From the top a vast plateau stretches to the lofty chain which forms the inland rim of the Andean massif.

The two next highest are at the right, or eastern, end of the massif.