Montana

plural Montanas

1. A placename.
   1. countableuncountableA town and province in northwestern Bulgaria.
   2. countableuncountableA former municipality of Valais canton, Switzerland.
   3. countableuncountableA locality in northern Tasmania, Australia.
   4. countableuncountableA state in the Mountain West region of the United States, formerly a territory. Capital: Helena. Largest city: Billings.

      Mr. WADE. I move to take up House bill No. 15 to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Montana.

      1864 April 1 [1864 March 30], Benjamin Wade, quotee, “TERRITORY OF MONTANA.”, in Congressional Globe, number 85, John C. Rives, page 1345, column 3

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      While I've gazed at the sky from my sleeping bag on isolated mountaintops in Montana and southern beaches of Mexico and seen a jazillion stars basking in the peace of the evening, only in Rishikesh do the jazillion merge upon another bajillion jazillion and seem to lay overhead thick as glittering ceiling tiles.

      2016, Claire Krulikowski, Moonlight on the Ganga

      First, the president’s uncle died in 1985. Kaczynski was publicly revealed as the Unabomber more than a decade later, in 1996, when he was captured; before that, he had lived as a recluse in the Montana wilderness.

      2025 July 16, Daniel Dale, “Fact check: Trump tells fictional story about his uncle and the Unabomber”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2025

   5. countableuncountableA town in Buffalo County, Wisconsin.
   6. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Johnson County, Arkansas.
   7. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas.
   8. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Warren County, New Jersey.
   9. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia.
   10. countableuncountableA barangay of Baclayon, Bohol, Philippines.
2. countableuncountableA unisex given name transferred from the place name, specifically from the name of the U.S. state.

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   'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. […]

   2002, Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin, published 2002, →ISBN, page 12

3. countableuncountableA surname from Spanish, equivalent to English Mountain, Mount, or Hill.

   Legendary NFL quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a woman suspected of trying to kidnap their grandchild Saturday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

   2020 September 27, Stella Chan, Paul Vercammen, Artemis Moshtaghian and Amir Vera, “NFL legend Joe Montana tussles with woman who attempted to kidnap his grandchild, police say”, in CNN