URAL MOUNTAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ural Mountains mean? 

• URAL MOUNTAINS (noun)
  The noun URAL MOUNTAINS has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia

  Familiarity information: URAL MOUNTAINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URAL MOUNTAINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea; forms part of the traditional boundary between Europe and Asia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Ural Mountains; Urals

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Ural Mountains" is a part of...):

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)

 Context examples 

The continent whose boundaries are the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Ural Mountains and Ural River in the east, the Caspian Sea, Caucasus mountains and Black Sea in the southeast and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.

(Europe, NCI Thesaurus)