guyot

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UK/ˈɡiː.əʊ/US/ɡiˈoʊ/

noun

A flat-topped seamount.

OriginFrench Guyot →
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Meanings

guyot1

nounguyot (plural guyots)

plural guyots

  1. geographyA flat-topped seamount.

    It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.

    2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158

Guyot2

proper nounGuyot (plural Guyots)

plural Guyots

  1. A surname from French.

Origin

guyot · noun

Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.

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Guyot · proper noun

  1. FrenchGuyot
  2. EnglishGuyot

Borrowed from French Guyot.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with guyot

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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

guyot. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guyot

MLA

“guyot.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guyot. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “guyot,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/guyot.

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