Black Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in W North Carolina, part of the Appalachian Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet (2,035 meters).

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Black Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)

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Example Sentences

Black Mountains College in Talgarth, Powys, has launched a BA in sustainable futures.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2023

I was standing on the Overhanging Great Wall, so named because it appears to cling to a ridge of the Black Mountains by some feat of wizardry.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2018

We first drove down the Badwater Road, which winds along the foot of the Black Mountains.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

As late May sunshine streams over the Black Mountains, the festival's first star takes to the stage – Ian McEwan, grande dame of Hay, and a writer whose popularity has always bewildered me.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010

He watched the sky over the distant Black Mountains the way Josiah had many years before, because sometimes when the rain finally came, it was from the southwest.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko