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

A woman trekked on her own across Morocco’s Atlas Mountains.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2024

The modeling shows that the earthquake occurred in the lower crust about 25 kilometers beneath the western Moroccan High Atlas Mountains and was a blind rupture, meaning it did not reach the surface.

From Science Daily • Dec. 15, 2023

The crowned and bearded man is pictured holding a compass to the nearby Atlas Mountains in North Africa.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

After years of drought, water finally came to one parched region of the Atlas Mountains in northern Morocco last month, freed from the ground by the earthquake that killed thousands and devastated whole villages.

From New York Times • Oct. 17, 2023

We camped that night near another red ruined kasbah, whose long line of crumbling tapia walls against the Atlas Mountains stretched itself out like a watch-dog beside the forbidden hills.

From In the Tail of the Peacock by Savory, Isabel