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

When a devastating earthquake shook Morocco's High Atlas mountains on Sept. 8, residents of poor areas where it struck turned for help to the state and the man who leads it, King Mohammed VI.

From Reuters • Sep. 15, 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

In the village of Ouirgane in the Atlas mountains, residents gather on piles of debris around the home of a mother and daughter buried underneath.

From BBC • Sep. 12, 2023

The saffron abounds in the Atlas mountains in Lower Suse, and is used in most articles of food by the Muhamedans.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Jackson, James Grey