Sierra Nevada

American  

[see-er-uh nuh-vad-uh, -vah-duh, syer-rah ne-vah-thah] / siˈɛr ə nəˈvæd ə, -ˈvɑ də, ˈsjɛr rɑ nɛˈvɑ ðɑ /

noun

1. a mountain range in E California. Highest peak, Mt. Whitney, 14,495 feet (4,420 meters).

2. a mountain range in S Spain. Highest peak, Mulhacén, 11,420 feet (3,480 meters).

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Sierra Nevada British  

noun

1. a mountain range in E California, parallel to the Coast Ranges. Highest peak: Mount Whitney, 4418 m (14 495 ft)

2. a mountain range in SE Spain, mostly in Granada and Almería provinces. Highest peak: Cerro de Mulhacén, 3478 m (11 411 ft)

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Sierra Nevada Cultural  

1. Mountain range in eastern California.

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Location of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the United States outside of Alaska.

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Sierra Nevada

Here, the Sierra Nevada gives way to the sand-colored mountains and salty lakes of the Basin and Range, the arid region writer Mary Austin called the “country of lost borders.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

At the heart of the residence is an expansive living room featuring towering windows that showcase the lake and nearby Sierra Nevada.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

So they had; and so they did the transcontinental, battering it through the high passes of the Sierra Nevada and then, far more quickly, hurrying toward the head of the Union Pacific’s tracks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

The recently released footage shows a helicopter hovering mere feet from a cliff face in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the US state of California while a rescue team secures an injured climber.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The crust beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains, for instance, is only about nineteen to twenty-five miles thick, and no one knows why.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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