Atlas Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in NW Africa, extending through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Highest peak, Mt. Tizi, 14,764 feet (4,500 meters).

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Atlas Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain system of N Africa, between the Mediterranean and the Sahara. Highest peak: Mount Toubkal, 4165 m (13 664 ft)

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Example Sentences

For centuries, families in towns like Moulay Brahim in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains constructed their homes of stone and bricks, which they made by tightly ramming handfuls of muddy earth into molds.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

The earthquake that struck on Sept. 8 killed nearly 3,000 people and damaged 60,000 homes, mostly in the High Atlas mountains.

From Reuters • Oct. 11, 2023

There's been criticism in the country of the speed of the official response to the quake, which is now known to have killed more than 2,800 people, most in remote villages in the Atlas mountains.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

Milk, nappies, jam and bedding are all being passed along human chains, loaded into trucks destined for villages dotted across the Atlas mountains.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

One that was killed near Tetuan, about twenty-five miles from the Atlas mountains, was a female, and less in size than the American black bear.

From Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt by Zwecker, Johann Baptist