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

An all-terrain wheelchair allowed her to recently go up a ridge on the Black Mountains.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

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

There’s the Petrified Forest national park and narrow, switchback roads through the Black Mountains before a descent into California and Los Angeles.

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2017

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

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

Robert was looking up at the thunderclouds rolling in from the Black Mountains in the south.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko