Meanings
- A township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States.
Since that ban took effect last October, “Montclair has been a healthier, cleaner, quieter community,” she said.
2024 June 20, Wayne Parry, “U.S. bans on gasoline-powered leaf blowers grow, as does blowback from landscaping industry”, in AP News, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2024 - A neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States.
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That was where he grew up […] near a place that called itself Montclair, tucked into the hills on the other side of Highway 13, where everyone pretended it was a faraway luxury mountain town, when it wasn’t even not Oakland, just an area, hardly more than a neighborhood with a fancy sign, not like Piedmont, which had paid for the right to declare itself its own city, to become officially not-Oakland.
2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 137
Origin
- Frenchmont“mountain”
- EnglishMontclair
From French mont (“mountain”) + clair (“clear”).
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Montclair. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Montclair
“Montclair.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Montclair. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Montclair,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Montclair.
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