ROCKIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rockies mean? 

• ROCKIES (noun)
  The noun ROCKIES has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: ROCKIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROCKIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Rockies; Rocky Mountains

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Rockies"):

Mount Elbert (the highest peak in the Rocky Mountains in central Colorado (14,431 feet high))

Pike's Peak (a mountain peak in the Rockies in central Colorado (14,109 feet high))

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

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

Wheeler Peak (a mountain peak in northeastern New Mexico in the Rocky Mountains)

Holonyms ("Rockies" is a part of...):

North America (a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

Frank here and I met in ’84, in McQuire’s camp, near the Rockies, where Pa was working a claim.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Grey Beaver had crossed the great watershed between Mackenzie and the Yukon in the late winter, and spent the spring in hunting among the western outlying spurs of the Rockies.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

When White Fang was nearly five years old, Grey Beaver took him on another great journey, and long remembered was the havoc he worked amongst the dogs of the many villages along the Mackenzie, across the Rockies, and down the Porcupine to the Yukon.

(White Fang, by Jack London)