Black Mountains

American  

plural noun

1. a mountain range in W North Carolina, part of the Appalachian Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet (2,035 meters).

---

Black Mountains British  

plural noun

1. a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)

---

Example Sentences

He said running over the Black Mountains and the Brecon Beacons helped to improve his stamina so some days he was able to do in excess of 30 miles.

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2021

I was standing on the Overhanging Great Wall, so named because it appears to cling to a ridge of the Black Mountains by some feat of wizardry.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2018

We first drove down the Badwater Road, which winds along the foot of the Black Mountains.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

As late May sunshine streams over the Black Mountains, the festival's first star takes to the stage – Ian McEwan, grande dame of Hay, and a writer whose popularity has always bewildered me.

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010

“Yes,” she said, looking off into the distance, toward the Black Mountains in the south.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko