MOUNTAIN RANGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mountain range mean? 

• MOUNTAIN RANGE (noun)
  The noun MOUNTAIN RANGE has 1 sense:

1. a series of hills or mountains

  Familiarity information: MOUNTAIN RANGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOUNTAIN RANGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A series of hills or mountains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains

Context example:

the plains lay just beyond the mountain range

Hypernyms ("mountain range" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Meronyms (parts of "mountain range"):

mountain pass; notch; pass (the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks)

massif (a block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range)

Instance hyponyms:

Sayan Mountains (a range of mountains in southern Siberia to the west of Lake Baikal; contain important mineral deposits)

Hindu Kush; Hindu Kush Mountains (a mountain range extending to the west of the Himalayas)

Karakoram; Karakoram Range; Karakorum Range; Mustagh; Mustagh Range (a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak)

Kuenlun; Kuenlun Mountains; Kunlan Shan; Kunlun; Kunlun Mountains (a mountain range in western China that extends eastward from the Indian border for 1000 miles)

Mesabi Range (a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887)

Mount Carmel (a mountain range in northwestern Israel near the Mediterranean coast)

Nan Ling (a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west)

Ozark Mountains; Ozark Plateau; Ozarks (an area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma)

Pamir Mountains; the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)

Pyrenees (a chain of mountains between France and Spain)

Rhodope Mountains (a mountain range in the Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe; extends along the border between Greece and Bulgaria)

Rockies; Rocky Mountains (the chief mountain range of western North America; extends from British Columbia to northern New Mexico; forms the continental divide)

Sacramento Mountains (mountain range in New Mexico to the east of the Rio Grande)

San Juan Mountains (a mountain range in southwestern Colorado that is part of the Rocky Mountains)

Himalaya; Himalaya Mountains; Himalayas (a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain)

Selkirk Mountains (a range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia)

sierra (a range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline))

Sierra Madre Occidental (a mountain range in northwestern Mexico that runs south from Arizona parallel to the Pacific coastline)

Sierra Madre Oriental (a mountain range in northeastern Mexico the runs parallel to the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico)

High Sierra; Sierra Nevada; Sierra Nevada Mountains (a mountain range in eastern California; contains Mount Whitney)

Sierra Nevada (a mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast to the east of Granada)

St. Elias Mountains; St. Elias Range (a range of mountains between Alaska and the Yukon territory)

Taconic Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains along the eastern border of New York with Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont)

Teton Range (a mountain range in northwest Wyoming; contains the Grand Teton)

Tien Shan; Tyan Shan (a major mountain range of central Asia; extends 1,500 miles)

Transylvanian Alps (a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania)

Tyrolean Alps (a popular tourist area in the Tyrol)

Ural Mountains; Urals (a mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia)

Blue Ridge; Blue Ridge Mountains (a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia)

Admiralty Range (mountains in Antarctica to the north of Victoria Land)

Alaska Range (a mountain range in south central Alaska; contains Mount McKinley)

Alleghenies; Allegheny Mountains (the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia)

Alps; the Alps (a large mountain system in south-central Europe; scenic beauty and winter sports make them a popular tourist attraction)

Altai Mountains; Altay Mountains (a mountain range in central Asia that extends a thousand miles from Kazakhstan eastward into western Mongolia and northern China)

Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)

Apennines (a mountain range extending the length of the Italian peninsula)

Appalachian Mountains; Appalachians (a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States)

Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert; extends from southwestern Morocco to northern Tunisia)

Australian Alps (a range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range)

Balkan Mountain Range; Balkan Mountains; Balkans (the major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula)

Berkshire Hills; Berkshires (a low mountain range in western Massachusetts; a resort area)

Black Hills (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)

Adirondack Mountains; Adirondacks (a mountain range in northeastern New York State; a popular resort area)

Cantabrian Mountains (a range of mountains in northern Spain along the coast of the Bay of Biscay)

Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians (a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area)

Cascade Mountains; Cascade Range; Cascades (a mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California; a part of the Coast Range)

Catskill Mountains; Catskills (a range of the Appalachians to the west of the Hudson in southeastern New York; includes many popular resort areas)

Caucasus; Caucasus Mountains (the mountain range in Caucasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea that forms part of the traditional border between Europe and Asia)

Coast Mountains; Coast Range (a string of mountain ranges along the Pacific coast of North America from southeastern Alaska to Lower California)

Cumberland Mountains; Cumberland Plateau (the southwestern part of the Appalachians)

Dolomite Alps (an eastern range of the Alps in northeastern Italy famous for their dolomitic limestone)

Eastern Highlands; Great Dividing Range (a mountain range running along the eastern coast of Australia)

Great Smoky Mountains (part of the Appalachians between North Carolina and Tennessee)

Green Mountains (a range of the Appalachian Mountains that extends from south to north through Vermont)

Guadalupe Mountains (a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains)

 Context examples 

A newly discovered mountain range lies near the southwestern margin of Pluto’s Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain.

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)

It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous one.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The reddish enhanced color image shown as the left inset reveals a mountain range located in southeast Cthulhu that’s 260 miles (420 kilometers) long.

(Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks, NASA)

Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years from October 2011 to October 2015.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

We ate dinner, a hurried and anxious meal for me with eighteen men abroad on the sea and beyond the bulge of the earth, and with that heaven-rolling mountain range of clouds moving slowly down upon us.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Amazon river changed course to the Atlantic between one and nine million years ago with the rise of the Andes mountain range, and this could explain why fish diversity is still concentrated west of the river.

(Amazon fish ‘face new threats’, SciDev.Net)

Smoke particles from the fires ravaging Australia have traveled more than 12,000 km, crossed an ocean and a mountain range and arrived in South America, meteorological institutions confirmed, after smoke was detected in Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

NASA’s New Horizons mission has discovered a new, apparently less lofty mountain range on the lower-left edge of Pluto’s best known feature, the bright, heart-shaped region named Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region).

(New Horizons Finds Second Mountain Range in Pluto’s ‘Heart’, NASA)