massif central

1. 1.

   a mountainous plateau in southern France that covers almost one sixth of the country

   Broadertablelandmassif

   Part ofFrance

Questions about massif central

What does massif central mean?

massif central means "a mountainous plateau in southern France that covers almost one sixth of the country".

Is massif central a common word?

massif central is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.