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Definition of Mountain range
1. Noun. A series of hills or mountains. "The plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
Specialized synonyms: Adirondack Mountains, Adirondacks, Admiralty Range, Alaska Range, Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains, Alps, The Alps, Altai Mountains, Altay Mountains, Andes, Apennines, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachians, Atlas Mountains, Australian Alps, Balkan Mountain Range, Balkan Mountains, Balkans, Berkshire Hills, Berkshires, Black Hills, Blue Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Cantabrian Mountains, Carpathian Mountains, Carpathians, Cascade Mountains, Cascade Range, Cascades, Catskill Mountains, Catskills, Caucasus, Caucasus Mountains, Coast Mountains, Coast Range, Cumberland Mountains, Cumberland Plateau, Dolomite Alps, Eastern Highlands, Great Dividing Range, Great Smoky Mountains, Green Mountains, Guadalupe Mountains, Himalaya, Himalaya Mountains, Himalayas, Hindu Kush, Hindu Kush Mountains, Karakoram, Karakoram Range, Karakorum Range, Mustagh, Mustagh Range, Kuenlun, Kuenlun Mountains, Kunlan Shan, Kunlun, Kunlun Mountains, Mesabi Range, Mount Carmel, Nan Ling, Ozark Mountains, Ozark Plateau, Ozarks, Pamir Mountains, The Pamirs, Pyrenees, Rhodope Mountains, Rockies, Rocky Mountains, Sacramento Mountains, San Juan Mountains, Sayan Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, Sierra, Sierra Madre Occidental, Sierra Madre Oriental, High Sierra, Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, Sierra Nevada, St. Elias Mountains, St. Elias Range, Taconic Mountains, Teton Range, Tien Shan, Tyan Shan, Transylvanian Alps, Tyrolean Alps, Ural Mountains, Urals
Generic synonyms: Formation, Geological Formation
Terms within: Massif, Mountain Pass, Notch, Pass
Definition of Mountain range
1. Noun. A series of adjoining mountains, often in a line. ¹
2. Noun. A series of lines of mountains. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mountain Range
Literary usage of Mountain range
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"CHAPTER XI ATTACK OF A mountain range FROM the fifth and following chapters of
the sixth book may be deduced sufficiently the strategic relations of a ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"See Emath. Herma. See Horma 1. Herman. mountain range on the N. border of Israel:
Jebel el-Sheikh, or J. et-Telj. ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"They appear likewise, as in Europe, along the central parts of prominent mountain
chains, as in the Rocky mountain range and that of the Appalachians. ..."
4. The History of the Civil War in America by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"Thence, rapidly traversing the eastern slope of the Bull mountain range, he
crossed the Potomac at Noland's Ford. Pushing vigorously along the western banks ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Its mountain range really consists of two high peaks, one in the north and one
in the south, connected by a small chain of mountains much less in height. ..."
6. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"CHAPTER XI ATTACK OF A mountain range FROM the fifth and following chapters of
the sixth book may be deduced sufficiently the strategic relations of a ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"See Emath. Herma. See Horma 1. Herman. mountain range on the N. border of Israel:
Jebel el-Sheikh, or J. et-Telj. ..."
8. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"They appear likewise, as in Europe, along the central parts of prominent mountain
chains, as in the Rocky mountain range and that of the Appalachians. ..."
9. The History of the Civil War in America by John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1866)
"Thence, rapidly traversing the eastern slope of the Bull mountain range, he
crossed the Potomac at Noland's Ford. Pushing vigorously along the western banks ..."
10. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Its mountain range really consists of two high peaks, one in the north and one
in the south, connected by a small chain of mountains much less in height. ..."
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