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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A series of mountain ridges alike in form, direction, and origin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A range of mountains; specifically, in geology, the series of more or less parallel ridges formed over the area and border of a single anticlinal or synclinal mountain-fold considered as a unit.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line.
  2. n. A series of lines of mountains.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. a series of mountains closely related in position and direction.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a series of hills or mountains

Examples

  • “The view was suddenly hugean entire mountain range stretched around them, the mag-lev line cutting through it like a seam of silver.”

    Simon & Schuster: Extras

  • “Planks of pine and beech are stacked to season, and a few old army lorries with cranes mounted behind stand about in the wood yard before a small mountain range of sawdust piles.”

    Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

  • “The chief cities of this section are placed along the coast, between the coast and the Sub-Apennines, and between this mountain range and the Apennines.”

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent

  • “Those marked him, to the people on this side of the mountain range variously called. the Dragonwall or the Spine of the World, as He Who Comes With the Dawn.”

    The Fires of Heaven

  • “The spaceport of Duhr was partly hidden in an imposing mountain range in the northeastern hemisphere.”

    the ship who sang

  • “Pot cultivation is much more common in the Sierra Madre mountain range in northern Sonora, Durango and Sinaloa states.”

    USA Today: 58 held in Mexico's biggest marijuana farm bust

  • “Two weeks after my ascent of Capitol, I headed over to a mountain range just east of Mount of the Holy Cross to join six friends from the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council and five of their relatives on an annual backcountry ski trip.”

    Simon & Schuster: 127 Hours

  • “They are the Nusairiyeh or Nosairi, sometimes also known as the Alawites after the mountain range in which they live.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Templar Revelation

  • “The Arabian Sea would focus the wave; a mountain range of water would march into Iran and Pakistan.”

    Fictionaut: I Don’t Understand ?

  • “The mountain range called Nishitomi is like folding screens with good pictures.”

    Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. geological formation
  1. formation

hyponyms (91)

Words that are more specific

  1. kuenlun
  2. kunlan shan
  3. Coast Mountains
  4. Ural Mountains
  5. balkan mountain range
  6. the pamirs
  7. himalaya
  8. Kunlun
  9. Mesabi Range
  10. Mount Carmel
  11. Admiralty Range
  12. Transylvanian Alps
  13. Ozarks
  14. Andes
  15. Atlas Mountains
  16. San Juan Mountains
  17. tyrolean alps
  18. urals
  1. Blue Ridge
  2. the alps
  3. alleghenies
  4. Eastern Highlands
  5. Sayan Mountains
  6. Pyrenees
  7. coast range
  8. Karakoram
  9. kunlun mountains
  10. Australian Alps
  11. kuenlun mountains
  12. Blue Ridge Mountains
  13. Altai Mountains
  14. Cascade Range
  15. Tien Shan
  16. berkshires
  17. Himalaya Mountains
  18. hindu kush mountains
  1. High Sierra
  2. Rockies
  3. Caucasus
  4. karakorum range
  5. Appalachian Mountains
  6. Green Mountains
  7. Balkans
  8. Berkshire Hills
  9. st. elias mountains
  10. adirondacks
  11. Teton Range
  12. Himalayas
  13. Balkan Mountains
  14. Carpathian Mountains
  15. Sierra Madre Oriental
  16. Ozark Plateau
  17. Ozark Mountains
  18. Selkirk Mountains
  1. Alaska Range
  2. Sierra Madre Occidental
  3. mustagh range
  4. Caucasus Mountains
  5. Dolomite Alps
  6. Alps
  7. Rhodope Mountains
  8. Catskill Mountains
  9. Black Hills
  10. Great Smoky Mountains
  11. Karakoram Range
  12. cascade mountains
  13. Sierra Nevada
  14. catskills
  15. Adirondack Mountains
  16. Hindu Kush
  17. Great Dividing Range
  18. Taconic Mountains
  1. Rocky Mountains
  2. Cantabrian Mountains
  3. cascades
  4. Apennines
  5. mustagh
  6. cumberland mountains
  7. Guadalupe Mountains
  8. st. elias range
  9. Pamir Mountains
  10. sierra nevada mountains
  11. Allegheny Mountains
  12. sierra
  13. Cumberland Plateau
  14. appalachians
  15. Sacramento Mountains
  16. carpathians
  17. Nan Ling
  18. tyan shan
  1. Altay Mountains

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. himalaya
  2. Himalaya Mountains
  3. Himalayas
  4. Allegheny Mountains
  5. cascade mountains
  6. Cascade Range
  7. cascades
  8. Caucasus
  9. Pyrenees
  10. Sierra Madre Occidental
  11. Sierra Madre Oriental
  12. Sierra Nevada
  13. Nan Ling
  14. Hindu Kush
  15. Kunlun
  16. Guadalupe Mountains
  17. Carpathian Mountains
  18. Appalachian Mountains
  19. Teton Range
  20. the pamirs
  21. Tien Shan
  22. tyan shan
  23. Ural Mountains
  24. urals
  25. Pamir Mountains
  26. Rhodope Mountains
  27. Rockies
  28. Rocky Mountains
  29. Sacramento Mountains
  30. San Juan Mountains
  31. sierra nevada mountains
  32. Eastern Highlands
  33. Great Dividing Range
  34. High Sierra
  35. hindu kush mountains
  36. Karakoram
  37. Karakoram Range
  38. karakorum range
  39. kuenlun
  40. kuenlun mountains
  1. kunlan shan
  2. kunlun mountains
  3. Mount Carmel
  4. mustagh
  5. mustagh range
  6. Adirondack Mountains
  7. adirondacks
  8. Alaska Range
  9. Altai Mountains
  10. Altay Mountains
  11. Andes
  12. Apennines
  13. appalachians
  14. Atlas Mountains
  15. balkan mountain range
  16. Balkan Mountains
  17. Balkans
  18. Berkshire Hills
  19. berkshires
  20. carpathians
  21. Caucasus Mountains
  22. submontane
  23. Ouachita Mountains
  24. dissect
  25. Zhang's
  26. Nubile
  27. versant
  28. arête
  29. foothill
  30. piedmont
  31. spur
  32. peak
  33. ghat
  34. Optix
  35. Escarcena
  36. Telescope Peak
  37. Ruwenzori
  38. Harz Mountains
  39. Erymanthos
  40. Electric Peak
  1. Grays Peak
  2. Grand Teton
  3. Franks Peak
  4. Beskids
  5. fan-structure
  6. massif
  7. cross-fault
  8. geosynclinal
  9. basin-range
  10. tessanne@avantgarde-dom
  11. OCEANSIZE
  12. sacomputers
  13. Estoy
  14. brand-image
  15. Sectera
  16. Threesome
  17. maynj
  18. 4Wrn
  19. EDU.AU
  20. Nepsilon
  21. liquid-fuel
  22. 3-Time
  23. Guskey
  24. a_jsr_for_conti
  25. Gwede
  26. tỳ
  27. repeatidly
  28. TabletPC's
  29. embranchment
  30. saw-toothed
  31. Tian Shan
  32. Uncompahgre Peak
  33. Tirich Mir
  34. Torreys Peak
  35. Torre de Cerredo
  36. Vosges
  37. Waianae Mountains
  38. Zugspitze
  39. Pobeda Peak
  40. Princeton
  1. Qilian Shan
  2. Quandary Peak
  3. Salmon River
  4. Salcantay
  5. foehn
  6. Scafell Pike
  7. Serra da Estrela
  8. Shavano Peak
  9. Sierra Madre del Sur
  10. Sierra Blanca Peak
  11. Stanovoy Range
  12. Macgillicuddy's Reeks
  13. Muztagata
  14. Muztag
  15. Jebel Toubkal
  16. K2
  17. Longs Peak
  18. La Plata Peak
  19. Erzgebirge
  20. Grampian Mountains
  21. Gasherbrum
  22. Fichtelgebirge
  23. Blanca Peak
  24. Borah Peak
  25. Beaverhead Mountains
  26. Cloud Peak
  27. Clingmans Dome
  28. Cordillera de Talamanca
  29. Cordillera Central
  30. Anti-Lebanon Range
  31. Alai
  32. skyline
  33. 53is
  34. asternwarning
  35. D-Nox
  36. acroceraunian
  37. foot-slope
  38. Ulugh Muztagh
  39. Olympus
  40. rain shadow
  1. intermountain
  2. rachitic
  3. pinus californiarum
  4. rakaposhi
  5. ranier
  6. Shasta
  7. backbone
  8. hump
  9. Pikes Peak
  10. plastic
  11. limb
  12. offset
  13. Dapsang
  14. godwin austen
  15. Hubbard
  16. Logan
  17. Mount Adams
  18. Mount Godwin-Austen
  19. mount hubbard
  20. Mount Logan
  21. mount ranier
  22. Mount Shasta
  23. Mount Tacoma
  24. mt. ranier
  25. Adams
  26. Balkan Peninsula
  27. california single-leaf pinyon
  28. monogenetic
  29. synclinorium
  30. ural
  31. aiguille
  32. axial
  33. axis
  34. Balkan
  35. crest
  36. geanticlinal
  37. prolongation
  38. apple
  39. mountain range
  40. Piedmont

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