Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A major mountain system of western North America extending more than 4,827 km (3,000 mi) from northwest Alaska to the Mexican border. The system includes numerous ranges and forms the Continental Divide. Its highest elevation is Mount Elbert, 4,402.1 m (14,433 ft), in central Colorado. In Canada the Rockies rise to 3,956.5 m (12,972 ft) at Mount Robson in eastern British Columbia. Sections of the mountains were explored by Coronado, Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, and Simon Fraser.
Wiktionary
- n. A range of mountains running from Northern New Mexico to Alaska.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide
Examples
“It is drained by several streams, the principal being the Platte, which is formed by the junction of two forks rising in the Rocky Mountains and flowing east through the centre of the state to the Missouri, and receives many tributaries in its course.”
“He is pointing to a jagged ridge of the Rocky Mountains at moonlight, with green foothills winding down to a small river and a wet red sandbar that runs around a corner to disappear behind some brush.”
“Today's earthquake seems rather to be of tectonic origin, that's to say it was caused by the weight and pressure of mountains: one the one side there are the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Madre, and on the other side there are Appalachian Hills on the extensive lowlands of the Gulf of Mexico which continue down to the mouth of the Mississippi.”
“In 1793 Alexander Mackenzie crossed the Rocky Mountains from the east and reached the Pacific overland.”
“And then, about the time I saw the Rocky Mountains rising from the plains ahead of us, I said, "Nahhh.”
“In a lonely part of the Rocky Mountains lies a group of enormously valuable coal-mines owned by the Rockefellers and other Protestant exploiters.”
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“Over all that lay between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes, between the Rocky Mountains and the Alleghanies the sceptre of Louis of France was stretched out.”
“Dacotah means "united people," and is the word which the Indians apply to seven of their bands. 1 These tribes formerly occupied the country south and south-west of Lake Superior; from whence they were gradually driven towards the Missouri and the Rocky Mountains by their powerful and dreaded enemies the Chippewas.”
“As she walked she enjoyed flashbacks to the southern Cascades at Lassen Volcanic and to the tip of the Rocky Mountains in Durango before they let go their alpine greenery and flowed into the red mesas of New Mexico.”
“He received a note in the morning from Lord Cantrip saying that they two were to see the Prime Minister that evening, in order that the whole question of the railway to the Rocky Mountains might be understood, and Phineas was driven to his work.”
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