Definition of Rockies

1. Noun. The chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide.


Definition of Rockies

1. Proper noun. The Rocky Mountains, a mountain range in North America. ¹

2. Noun. (plural of Rocky) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockies

Rochon prism
Rock
Rock Cornish
Rock Cornish hen
Rock Island
Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Springs
Rock fever
Rock of Gibraltar
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Republican
Rockefellers
Rocketshipper
Rocketshippers
Rockford
Rockies (current term)
Rockingham
Rockingham podocarp
Rockstone
Rockwell
Rockwell Kent
Rockwellesque
Rocky
Rocky-mountain maple
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain bee plant
Rocky Mountain bighorn
Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine

Literary usage of Rockies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Forest Physiography: Physiography of the United States and Principles of by Isaiah Bowman (1911)
"Ill SOUTHERN Rockies IN contrast to the irregularly arranged mountains of the Central Rockies with variable trend, numerous offsets, and plain and plateau ..."

2. Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America by Kira Gale (2006)
"YELLOWSTONE NAT'L PARK 152-153 78 D Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman 79 D Gallatin Pioneer Museum and Historical Society, Bozeman 80 n Yellowstone Gateway ..."

3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1902)
"But Joe's story leads me to believe that an account of an adventure which Dave Butler and I had last fall, while hunting grizzlies in the Rockies, ..."

4. Natural Resources of the United States by Jacob Harris Patton (1899)
"The Andes and the Rockies.—While the Andes have not a break, and loom up bluff quite close alongside the Pacific, from Panama to Patagonia, the Rockies on ..."

5. My Reminiscences by Raphael Pumpelly (1918)
"CHAPTER XLVI IN THE NORTHERN Rockies THE most interesting of all my ... We would then together explore the northern Rockies, starting this time from the ..."

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