Meanings
- historicalpluralplural onlyAn Iroquoian Native American culture from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia, whose sites have been mostly found in the Monongahela River valley.
- A river on the Allegheny Plateau in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, United States, a tributary of the Ohio River.
- A city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Just a couple of weeks later, on Sept. 23, Greene sat directly behind McCarthy in a manufacturing facility in Monongahela, Pa., as he publicly previewed what a House Republican majority’s legislative agenda would look like.
2022 October 17, Robert Draper, “The Problem of Marjorie Taylor Greene”, in The New York Times MagazineSynonyms: Mon City
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA city in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.
Origin
- Unamimënaonkihëla“where the banks cave in”
- EnglishMonongahela
From Unami mënaonkihëla (“where the banks cave in”).
More words from Unami
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Monongahela. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Monongahela
“Monongahela.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Monongahela. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Monongahela,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Monongahela.
Source: Monongahela on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.