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noun a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range
originBorrowed from French massif, from Middle French massif, ultimately from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “barley-cake, lump (of dough)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0