Great Smoky Mountains

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plural noun

a range of the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee; most of the range is included in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 720 square miles (1,865 square kilometers). Highest peak, Clingman's Dome, 6,642 feet (2,024 meters).

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Also called Smoky Mountains, Great Smokies .

Origin of Great Smoky Mountains

First recorded in 1840–45

Words nearby Great Smoky Mountains

Great Scott, great seal, great shakes, Great Slave Lake, Great Slave River, Great Smoky Mountains, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Great Society, great soil group, Great South Bay, Great Spirit

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How to use Great Smoky Mountains in a sentence

Llama rentals are less common in other regions, though there are some guided llama trips near popular national parks, such as Great Smoky Mountains.
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When visiting Great Smoky Mountains, it’s helpful to know you can bring pets to campgrounds, picnic areas, and along roads, but not on any dirt trails.
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Parton grew up in East Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains, one of 12 kids.
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Tend to your own garden, to quote the great sage of free speech, Voltaire, and invite people to follow your example.
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It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
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Unfortunately, this is more about protecting the legacy of a ‘great man.’
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Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
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“He turned pale, trembled to a great degree, was much agitated, and began to cry,” she told the court.
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"Capital, capital," his lordship would remark with great alacrity, when there was no other way of escape.
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I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
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After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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This is a feature by means of which it is always possible to distinguish the Great Horsetail from any other species.
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British Dictionary definitions for Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smokies

pl n

the W part of the Appalachians, in W North Carolina and E Tennessee. Highest peak: Clingman's Dome, 2024 m (6642 ft)

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

Cultural definitions for Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains

Part of the Appalachian Mountains on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.

notes for Great Smoky Mountains

Named after the smokelike haze that envelops them.

notes for Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the crest of the Smokies. The Appalachian Trail follows the crest of the mountains.