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Apennines

[ ap-uh-nahynz ]

noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. a mountain range in Italy, extending across the length of the entire peninsula from northwest to southwest. Highest peak, Monte Corno, 9,585 feet (2,922 meters).


Apennines

/ ˈæpəˌnaɪnz /

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in Italy, extending over 1250 km (800 miles) from the northwest to the southernmost tip of the peninsula. Highest peak: Monte Corno, 2912 m (9554 ft)
  2. a mountain range lying in the N quadrants of the moon, extending over 950 km along the SE border of the Mare Imbrium and rising to 6200 m
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

The Italian election was a farrago of farce and consequence that reaches far beyond the Alps and the Apennines.

The idea was that a concentrated movement should be made against the Allies through the Apennines.

The entire Riviera was abandoned, and they retreated across the Apennines into Piedmont.

A little while before to-day the most precious of our dreams was not so lovely as that spur of the Apennines.

Italy was far less easy of access from the north than from Greece, and Rome lay well southward beyond the Apennines.

He took the same method of enjoyable travelling in the Apennines—that of the Pedestrian.

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