Anti-Lebanon

American  

[an-tee-leb-uh-nuhn] / ˌæn tiˈlɛb ə nən /

noun

1. a mountain range in SW Asia, between Syria and Lebanon, E of the Lebanon Mountains.

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Anti-Lebanon British  

noun

1. a mountain range running north and south between Syria and Lebanon, east of the Lebanon Mountains. Highest peak: Mount Hermon, 2814 m (9232 ft)

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Example Sentences

An hour's drive north of Damascus into the russet foothills of the Anti-Lebanon range, the road curves past an elegant stand of cypress trees.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not waiting to argue the point, Shishekly abandoned his wife and children in Damascus and fled across the Anti-Lebanon range in a snowstorm to the safety of Beirut.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Syrian capital is walled away from the West and from the Mediterranean by the double massif of the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon ranges, rising to 10,000 ft.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the loftiest peak of the Anti-Lebanon, and is 10,000 feet above the sea.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

Hermon is in full sight; snow-capped Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon face each other for forty miles; and the little lake of Kafr K�k makes a spot of blue light in the foreground.

From Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit by Van Dyke, Henry