BLACK HILLS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Black Hills mean? 

• BLACK HILLS (noun)
  The noun BLACK HILLS has 2 senses:

1. mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore

2. mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming

  Familiarity information: BLACK HILLS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK HILLS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Black Hills"):

Mount Rushmore; Mt. Rushmore; Rushmore (a mountain in the Black Hills of South Dakota; the likenesses of Washington and Jefferson and Lincoln and Roosevelt are carved on it)

Holonyms ("Black Hills" is a part of...):

Coyote State; Mount Rushmore State; S.D.; SD; South Dakota (a state in north central United States)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

mount; mountain (a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill)

Holonyms ("Black Hills" is a part of...):

Coyote State; Mount Rushmore State; S.D.; SD; South Dakota (a state in north central United States)

Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)