Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rugged range of mountains having an irregular or jagged profile. See Usage Note at redundancy.
- n. A Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus sierra) of the Pacific coast of tropical America.
- n. See cero.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A chain of hills or mountains: used as part of the name of many mountain-chains in Spanish or formerly Spanish countries: as, the Sierra. Nevada (in Spain and in California).
- n. A scombroid fish, Scomberomorus caballa, a kind of Spanish mackerel. The sides of the body of the young are relieved by indistinct dark-yellowish spots, which are lost in the adult, and the spinous dorsal has no anterior black blotch. It is the largest species of its genus, and occasionally reaches a weight of 100 pounds. It inhabits the tropical Atlantic, and rarely visits the southern coast of the United States.
- n. Same as chromosphere.
Wiktionary
- n. A rugged range of mountains.
- n. The letter S in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A ridge of mountain and craggy rocks, with a serrated or irregular outline.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a Spanish mackerel of western North America
- n. a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline)
Etymologies
- From Spanish sierra (Wiktionary)
- Spanish, saw, sierra, from Latin serra, saw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Afterwards, I flew out of San Andres in a light aircraft and had an opportunity to view the Huichol sierra from the air.”
“I purchased some Federal 140 grain sierra boat tails that the rifle really likes to shoot.”
“And the first hour and a half of that, from Tuxpan to the foot of the sierra, is actually pretty good, including a short stretch of autopista from Tuxpan to Tihuatlan.”
“Kristen said: On January 29, 2009 sierra is absolutely adorable and baxter is such a good sport. can’t wait to see the pink fancypants. shimarella said: On January 29, 2009”
“January 08, 2007 9: 27 PM sierra aka gen lover! said ... oops, sorry for the double post. still loving Eugenides!!!”
“M. Faye, of the French Academy, inclined to a lunar origin for them; [193] Feilitsch of Greifswald published in 1852 a treatise for the express purpose of proving all the luminous phenomena attendant on solar eclipses -- corona, prominences and "sierra" -- to be purely optical appearances. [”
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
“Spanish geographers would call them a "sierra" (saw) -- a phrase which they have applied to the Andes of America.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sierra’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Realia from Everywhere
Culturally defined terms and expressions from the four corners of the world
fjord, mistral steppe, tornado, tsunami, polder, kiwi, koala, sequoia, Abominable Snowman, paprika, spaghetti, empanada and 299 more...
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Girls Names
List of Girls names.
carla, jamie, ashley, kaitlyn, mae, lynn, nicole, sierra, mary, ann, manda, sara and 130 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-...
Words that have been used as baby names, including virtue names, nature names, place names, etc.
The title is an actual name given to a Puritan boy in the 17th century.faith, hope, grace, charity, chastity, prudence, patience, temperance, river, phoenix, stone, violet and 455 more...
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the earth
Planetary chaos: terrain, landscape and geology excluding rocks. (See "the geologist" list for the latter.)
butte, karst, caldera, mesa, laccolith, cwm, crater, alp, precipice, sierra, badlands, prairie and 122 more...
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Man likes these words
danube, schadenfreude, macabre, wanderlust, epiphany, azure, zeitgeist, cerulean, ennui, rhine, abyss, mulch and 130 more...
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jagosaurus's favorites
Words I like mostly because of the way they sound and feel.
ticonderoga, petulance, snark, estimable, chickahominy, feline, gezellig, gneiss, shit, willy-nilly, shelter, coda and 366 more...
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Landscape
riparian, littoral, talus, fen, ambit, savanna, remnant prairie, shortgrass prairie, tallgrass prairie, marsh, swamp, marshy and 199 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Lay of the Land
all kinds of scapes
steppe, veld, veldt, campo, llano, taiga, krummholz, elfinwood, tundra, sward, lea, heath and 197 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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purple mountain magesties
US mountain ranges
cascade, sierra, rocky, wallowa, teton, smoky, adirondack, appalachian, blue ridge, shawangunk, green, endless and 17 more...
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Phonetic alphabet, Norwegian edition
The standard NATO phonetic alphabet with the norwegian additions
alpha, bravo, charlie, delta, echo, foxtrot, golf, hotel, india, juliet, kilo, lima and 17 more...
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The Phonetic Alphabet
Used extensively in the transportation industry, the military, Ham radio operators etc. The alphabet was different during WWII, viz.:
Able Baker Charlie Dog Easy Fox George How ...zulu, yankee, x-ray, whiskey, victor, uniform, tango, sierra, romeo, quebec, papa, oscar and 14 more...
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Josh's Words
flatulence, defenestrate, anatidaephobia, corinthian, faux, awkward, spooky, wednesday, sierra, savannah, siena, saffron and 5 more...
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