English > mountain chain: 1 sense > noun 1, object| Meaning | A series of hills or mountains. |
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| Synonyms | range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, chain of mountains |
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| Instances | Adirondacks, Adirondack Mountains | A mountain range in northeastern New York State |
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| Admiralty Range | mountains in Antarctica to the north of Victoria Land |
| Alaska Range | A mountain range in south central Alaska |
| Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains | The western part of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Alps, the Alps | A large mountain system in south-central Europe |
| 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 |
| Appalachians, Appalachian Mountains | A mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico |
| Atlas Mountains | A mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert |
| Australian Alps | A range of mountains in Australia that forms the southern end of the Great Dividing Range |
| Balkans, Balkan Mountains, Balkan Mountain Range | The major mountain range of Bulgaria and the Balkan Peninsula |
| Berkshires, Berkshire Hills | A low mountain range in western Massachusetts |
| Black Hills | mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming |
| Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge | A range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia |
| Cantabrian Mountains | A range of mountains in northern Spain along the coast of the Bay of Biscay |
| Carpathians, Carpathian Mountains | A mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania |
| Cascades, Cascade Range, Cascade Mountains | A mountain range in the northwestern United States extending through Washington and Oregon and northern California |
| Catskills, Catskill Mountains | A range of the Appalachians to the west of the Hudson in southeastern New York |
| 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 Range, Coast Mountains | 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 |
| Great Dividing Range, Eastern Highlands | 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 |
| Himalayas, Himalaya Mountains, Himalaya | A mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet |
| 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 |
| Kunlun, Kunlan Shan, Kunlun Mountains, Kuenlun, Kuenlun 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 |
| Ozarks, Ozark Mountains, Ozark Plateau | 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 |
| Rockies, Rocky Mountains | The chief mountain range of western North America |
| 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 |
| Sayan Mountains | A range of mountains in southern Siberia to the west of Lake Baikal |
| Selkirk Mountains | A range of the Rocky Mountains in southeastern British Columbia |
| 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 |
| Sierra Nevada, Sierra Nevada Mountains, High Sierra | A mountain range in eastern California |
| Sierra Nevada | A mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast to the east of Granada |
| St. Elias Range, St. Elias Mountains | 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 |
| Tien Shan, Tyan Shan | A major mountain range of central Asia |
| Transylvanian Alps | A range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania |
| Tyrolean Alps | A popular tourist area in the Tyrol |
| Urals, Ural Mountains | A mountain range in western Russia extending from the Arctic to the Caspian Sea |
| sierra | A range of mountains (usually with jagged peaks and irregular outline) |
| Parts | massif | A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range |
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| pass, mountain pass, notch | The location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks |
| Broader | geological formation, formation | (geology) the geological features of the earth |
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| Spanish | cadena montañosa, cordillera, sierra |
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| Catalan | serralada, serra |
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